| Description: | This course provides fundamental skills needed to design, implement, and maintain computer applications focused on information processing, management, retrieval, and presentation. Students will learn object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithm analysis, and data processing techniques in the context of information science topics. |
| Room/Time: | Manning 14: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00am - 12:15pm |
| Instructor: | Rob Capra, r<lastname> at unc dot edu |
| Office hours: | Manning 210: Tuesdays, 2:00-3:00pm, and by appointment |
| Textbooks: |
INTPY: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, interactive edition 2.0: http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/toc.html
TPY: Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, 2nd edition. Downey, A.
PDA: Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython.
PSADS: Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures
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| Policies: | inls490_sp16_coursepolicies.pdf |
| Lecture | Date | Topic(s) | Readings | Assigned | Due |
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| 1 | 12-Jan | Python Introduction | INTPY: General Intro | ||
| 2 | 14-Jan | Data, Loops, Modules | INTPY: Simple Python Data, Debugging INTPY: For loop (thru "Flow"), Modules |
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| 3 | 19-Jan | Functions, Iteration | INTPY: Functions, Selection, More Iteration | Ex1 | |
| 4 | 21-Jan | Functions, Iteration | INTPY: Functions, Selection, More Iteration | Ex2 | |
| 5 | 26-Jan | Strings, Lists, Tuples | INTPY: Strings, Lists (include tuples) | Ex3 | |
| 6 | 28-Jan | Strings, Lists, Tuples | INTPY: Strings, Lists (include tuples) | ||
| 7 | 02-Feb | Files, Regular Expressions | INTPY: Files ext link:Python RegEx |
P1 | |
| 8 | 04-Feb | Text Analysis 1 | TPY: Ch9 Word Play | Ex4, Ex5 | |
| 9 | 09-Feb | Dictionaries | INTPY: Dictionaries | ||
| 10 | 11-Feb | Text Analysis 2 | TPY: Ch13 Case Study | Ex6 | |
| 11 | 16-Feb | Recursion | INTPY: Recursion | ||
| 12 | 18-Feb | Text Analysis 2 revisited | TPY: Ch13 Case Study | ||
| 13 | 23-Feb | Objects | INTPY: Classes basics, Classes deeper | ||
| 14 | 25-Feb | OO Concepts | TPY: Ch17 Classes | ||
| 15 | 01-Mar | In-Class Project 1 | P1 | ||
| 16 | 03-Mar | OO Inheritance | TPY: Ch18 Inheritance | ||
| 17 | 08-Mar | Algorithm Analysis | PSADS: Analysis | ||
| 18 | 10-Mar | Midterm Exam | |||
| 19 | 15-Mar | SPRING BREAK | |||
| 20 | 17-Mar | SPRING BREAK | |||
| 21 | 22-Mar | Sorting | |||
| 22 | 24-Mar | XML and JSON | ext link:ElementTree, ext link:JSON | ||
| 23 | 29-Mar | Python for Data Analysis Data Analysis Examples |
PDA: Ch1-2, Preliminaries & Examples | P2 | |
| 24 | 31-Mar | NumPy | PDA: Ch4, NumPy | ||
| 25 | 05-Apr | NumPy | PDA: Ch4, NumPy | ||
| 26 | 07-Apr | PANDAS | PDA: Ch5, Pandas | P3 | |
| 27 | 12-Apr | PANDAS | PDA: Ch5, Pandas | P2 | |
| 28 | 14-Apr | PANDAS Data Handling |
PDA: Ch6, Data Loading, Storage, File Formats | ||
| 29 | 19-Apr | Data Aggregation and Group Operations | PDA: Ch9, Data Aggregation and Group Operations | ||
| 30 | 21-Apr | Performance | PSADS: Performance of Python Data Structures | ||
| 31 | 26-Apr | Review | P3 | ||
| 29-Apr | FINAL EXAM | April 29, 12noon |