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This course will follow a schedule very similar to previous versions of the course Spring 2013 version

Date	Lecture Topics	Assigned Readings & Other Info
Aug 28	Course introduction Getting started with Python	Textbook - Pages 1 to 40. Lecture 1 temperature conversion program tempConversion as a function example with while loops and if statement
Sep 2	No class today!
Sep 4	More functions modularization, abstration. Scoping	Textbook - Chapter 3, upto page 53. Lecture 2 vowel Counter program coke machine example - part 1 and coke machine example - part 2 roman numeral example
Sep 9	Recursion Exception Handling Using the IDLE Debugger	Textbook - 54 - 60. Lecture 3 Numbers written in words
Sep 11	Lists etc	Lecture 4 Palindrome
Sep 16	TDD	Lecture 5 TDD handout the quadratic solver (still not finished) the tests for quadratic equations
Sep 18	Dictionaries	Lecture 6 Chapter 5 of the book dynamic programming for fibonacci
Sep 23	Recursion. Especially as it applies to lists	Lecture 7 merge sort towers of hanoi permutations list recursion
Sep 25	Files	Lecture 8 Read all of Chapter 6 from the book file sorting
Sep 30	Classes	Lecture 9 bankAccount checking account complex numbers Chapter 7 of the book
Oct 2	Func Prog	Lecture 10 Chapter 8 of the book prime number sieve
Oct 7	Quicksort via list comprehension Object oriented programming	Lecture 11 Chapter 9 of the book Quicksort Stack Reverse Polish notation calculator
Oct 9	Wrapping up Python	Lecture 12 infix calculator num py demo graph demo
Oct 14	Intro to Java Converting from Python to Java	Lecture 13
Oct 14	Lots of java	Lecture 14
Oct 21	Midterm
Oct 23	Java unit testing and some more interaction with Eclipse	Lecture 15
Oct 28	Finishing up basic Java Some really useful Eclipse keyboard shortcuts	Continuing on from slides of the previous lecture Class structure
Oct 30	More on class structure Hands on Junit testing	Continuing on from slides of the previous lecture Junit Debugging video
Nov 4	Polymorphism	Polymorphism git repo
Nov 6	Polymorphism contd. More hands on Polymorphism A little bit about Inner Classes	continuation of previous lecture inner classes
Nov 11	Swing	Swing Swing examples from Dr Dave
Nov 13	Abstract classes	Abstract classes slides
Nov 18	Model-View-Controller	MVC bulletin board observer observable example shopping example of observer observable
Nov 20	Threads	threads
Nov 25	Animation	animation collections
Dec 2	Exceptions Files	Exceptions Files in java
Dec 4	Strings and string builders Regular expressions (only some basic parts)	Strings Regex
Dec 9	summary of object oriented programming	summary lecture
Dec 18	Final 2 hr exam	3pm - 5pm at DRL A8