Tentative Schedule

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Week	Start of Week	Schedule	Assignments
1	Jan. 23	Course Intro; basic unix; python shell vs scripting; chapter 1 including syntax, runtime and loginc errors	week 1 lab due Mon of week 2
2	Jan. 30	Chapters 2: values,variables, expressions, statements; Chapter 3: functions	week 2 lab
3	Feb. 6	Chapter 4: booleans,conditionals,input, drawing with GASP	week 3 lab
4	Feb. 13	Chapter 5, basic html	week 4 lab
5	Feb. 20	Mon=Prez Day (no class), Chapter 6	week 5 lab due Wed, Feb 29, Project 1 assigned
6	Feb. 27	Quiz review, begin Chapter 7, code to print ASCII chart: while and for loop versions, ASCII chart and code Code Camp Fri 2:15-3:15 pm, 4:45-5:45 pm	week 6 lab due Wed Mar 21
7	March 5	finish Chapt 7, Code Camp 1, Code Camp 1 Solutions Midterm 1 review Wed, Midterm Fri	Project 1 due Wed
	March 12	Spring Break
8	March 19	Chapter 8	week 8 lab; Wed 3/28 turn in Quiz6 & 7: Quiz6 correct exam 1-10; Quiz7 correct exam 11-15
9	March 26	Chapter 9	week 9 lab due Wed Apr 4
10	April 2	Chapter 10, Fri no class (Easter Holiday)	week 10 lab due Wed Apr 11, Project 2 assigned
11	April 9	Finish Chapter 10, file reading of a maze, Begin Chapter 11: Recursion	week 11 lab due Wed Apr 25
12	April 16	Exceptions, Midterm 2 review, midterm Code Camp 2, Code Camp 2 Solutions	Project 3 assigned; Project 2 due Wed
13	April 23	Classes, Objects and Inheritance draw class example Code Camp B1, option B Assignment2, Code Camp B1 Solutions
14	April 30	Classes and methods, Binary Search class for complex numbers, gravitational objects Code Camp B2, option B Assignment3, Code Camp B2 Solutions
15	May 7	Final review, Wed is last day of class Code Camp B3, Code Camp B3 Solutions	Project 3 Option B last part due Fri
15 con't	Sat May 12	Final exam is Sat May 12, 12:30 - 2:30 pm in our classroom

Some Linux commands:

ls : list the contents of the current directory
mkdir < name > : create a new directory called "name"
cd : change directory to your home diredctory
cd .. : move up one directory level
cd < name >: change directory to directory "name", specify the full path unless "name" is a subdirectory of current directory
cd < name1 >/< name2 > : move into directory "name1/name2", specify the full path unless "name" is a subdirectory of current directory
rm < name > : remove file called "name"
rmdir < name > : remove directory called "name"

Assignments and Projects

Week i Assignments are due before midnight on the Mon of week (i+1). Project deadlines are specified when assigned.
The text is the free online text: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
Part of your assignment for week 1 (below) is to create a website where you will turn in all of your assignments.
When uploading to your website, copy and paste 1) your answers to questions, 2) runs that demonstrate that your solution is correct, 3) any code you wrote to get your results.
Projects must be documented and tested.

Week 1

Join the class email list, create your web site for this class, and email the instructor your url.
Complete all of the exercises in the text at the end of chapter 1.

Week 2

Complete all of the exercises in the text at the end of chapter 2.
Complete all of the exercises in the text at the end of chapter 3.
Write a program that gets temperature in celcius from the user, converts it to Fahrenheit, and outputs the result. Write another program that does the opposite, converting temperature in Fahrenheit to Celcius. (You may combine these into one program if you wish). See the example below.
Write these same 2 programs using functions.

Code to get input, convert inches to centimeters and output result:
inches = input("Enter the length in inches: ")
cent = 2.54* inches
print inches, " in equals ", cent, " cm"

Function to convert inches to centimeters:
# Returns the number of centimeters that is equal to the number of inches in variable inch
def inchesToCentimeters(inch):
    cm = 2.54* inch
    return cm

Main program that calls the function inchesToCentimeters:
inches = input("Enter the length in inches: ")
cent = inchesToCentimeters(inches)          # this is the function call: note that if the result is not assigned to a variable, it will be discarded
print inches, " in equals ", cent, " cm"

Week 3

Complete all of the exercises in the text at the end of chapter 4.

Hints on using GASP:
A coordinate is an (x,y) pair, just as in coordinates you used in math.
a list of coordinates contains coordinates separated by commas in a list delimited by square brackets:
    [(20, 120), (70, 160), (120,120)]
For the polygon statement: the first parameter is a list of coordinates, the second is a boolean denoting whether the polygon will be filled, and the third is the fill color:
    coordList = [(20, 120), (70, 160), (120,120)]
    Polygon(coordList, True, color.RED)
To close the graphics window, press any key when the graphics window is the current window, don't click on the X in the menu bar to close the window

An example with pygame (Valentine delivery):
Download these files into your cs110 directory:
ChurchReflectoin5Web_Big.jpg,   flowerGram_small.jpg,   harp.wav
Download and run this python program from the terminal

An example with pyProcessing:
    from pyprocessing import *
    size(500,500)
    line(100,100,400,400)
    rect(10,10,70,150)
    ellipse(200,200,50,50)
    ellipse(300,300,100,50)
    run()

Week 4

Complete all of the exercises in the text at the end of chapter 5.
Create an html file named hello.html that creates a simple web page that says "Hello, world!". Follow the directions here to change permissions and post it to your CS account web folder so that it may be seen by anyone in the world who has access to a computer with a web browser. Paste the link http://www.cs.usfca.edu/yourCSusername/cs110/hello.html into your lab4 assignment on your google site. Replace 'yourCSusername' with your CS username.

You can run python in Eclipse if you install Pydev, an Eclipse Python plugin.
For instructions on how to install Pydev click here.

Week 5

Complete all of the exercises in the text at the end of chapter 6.
Create a python CGI program named converter.py that creates a simple web page that converts user input of degrees in Fahrenheit to Celcius. Follow the directions here to create a simple CGI program, change permissions and post it to your CS account web folder so that it may be seen by anyone in the world who has access to a computer with a web browser. You will need to add a web form to your CGI program. Instructions are here. Paste the link http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~yourCSusername/cs110/converter.py into your lab5 assignment on your google site. Replace 'yourCSusername' with your CS username.
An example of a CGI program that takes 3 numbers of user input from a form is and adds them is adder.py. See the python CGI script here

Week 6
Note that due date is out of the ordinary: due Wed March 21.

Complete all of the exercises in the text at the end of chapter 7.
Midterm will cover through 7.14.1 Exercises: 1 and 2 AND 7.16 Exercises: 1 and 2

For project 1 due Wed, March 7, 10pm:
First debug your 2 functions that do not involve the web form:
1. Debug your function that counts CAG repeats in the DNA
2. Debug your function that determines the output depending on the number of CAG repeats. The output includes both the classification and the disease status from the project specification. The easiest way for you to write this function is to return a "tuple" that contains both these values. For example, if there are 2 repeats, your function would execute the line:
return ('Normal', 'Unaffected')
Then catch these return values by assigning them to a tuple in main. Ex:
(classification, status) = < your function call >
Pass them to your string template that displays your disease prediction after your form:
resultString = "Number of repeats is: %s, Classification is: %s, Disease status is: %s"%(numCAGs, classification, status)
The "%s" are replaced by string variables that you pass to the string template. In this example, The first "%s" will be replaced by the contents of string variable "numCAGs", the second "%s" will be replaced by the contents of string variable "classification" and the third "%s" will be replaced by the contents of string variable "status".

It's difficult to debug CGI in a browser.
Instead, debug your CGI program on the command line: at the prompt when you would ordinarily type:
python hunt.py
you can instead type a query string as you would see it as part of the URL after you click submit. For example:
QUERY_STRING="first_name=Patricia&last_name=Francis-Lyon&dna=CAGC" python hunt.py
Python will consider these arguments as if they vame from the URL and the web server, and will render your web page to the terminal.
(Of course, you must use the name of your program in place of hunt.py and you must use your form variables (the name from the input tag) in place of first_name, last_name and dna).

Week 8

Complete all of the exercises in the text at the end of chapter 8.

Week 9

Complete all of the exercises in the text at the end of chapter 9 (except that you may skip #10).

Week 10

Complete exercises from chapter 10 of the text: 4,5,10-16. (That means skip 1,2,3,6,7,8,9)

Week 11

Complete exercises from chapter 11 of the text: 1-3, 6-10.
Extra Credit: Extend the maze program found here. You can use this maze, or make your own. Fill in the code where indicated in fuction walkMaze to navigate the maze.