Comp 112: Introduction to Programming

wesleyan university, spring 2018

Instructor

office hours: Exley 645, Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00-3:00, and by appointment

Lectures

Tuesdays 8:50-10:10, Exley 109

Labs

Thursdays 8:50-10:10, Exley 74

Help Sessions

day	time	location
Sundays	7:00-9:00 PM	Exley 103
Mondays	7:00-9:00 PM	Exley 103
Thursdays	7:00-9:00 PM	Exley 103

Book

Think Python (2nd ed.) by Allen B. Downey

Additional References

Moodle

Assignments, labs and announcements will be posted on the course Moodle site.

Handouts

Lecture Slides

2018.01.25: Week 0: Course Introduction
2018.01.30: Week 1: Expressions, Variables and Programs
2018.02.06: Week 2: Calling and Defining Functions
2018.02.13: Week 3: Flow Control
2018.02.20: Week 4: Strings and Methods
2018.02.27: Week 5: Lists and References
2018.03.06: Week 6: Midterm 1 (no new topics)
2018.03.27: Week 9: Recursive Functions
2018.04.03: Week 10: Tuples and Dictionaries
2018.04.10: Week 11: Classes and Interfaces
2018.04.17: Week 12: Files and Exceptions
2018.04.24: Week 13: Function Literals and Higher-Order Functions
2018.05.01: Week 14: Midterm 2 (no new topics)