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Distributed | Due | Identifier / Link | Precis |
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4/11 | 4/13 | Implement the dragon curve You may find it easiest to cannibalize the sierpinski code | |
3/30 | 4/4 (Tues) | Practical loops -- Homework 3/30 | (1) how a for loop and a while loop are similar things, (2)three "practical problems" using loops and lists |
3/28 | 3/28 (in class) | InClass 03/28 | Do Exercises 1, 2 from Chapter 11 (map function) |
3/23 | 3/23 | InClass 03/23 | See Lecture on 3/23 (operator precedence, associativity ... mostly) |
3/9 | 3/13 via email! | Supply appropriate page numbers for the
exam topics. Spreadsheet Exam question will be drawn from those pages Group work is allowed -- each person submits a spreadsheet. | Exam study |
3/7 | 3/16 | Simple sort | Sort |
2/28 | 3/7 | Guessing game | User guesses roll of two dice |
2/14 | 3/7 | Homework 2/14 | Estimate area under curve using (1) Reimann sum and (2) Monte Carlo method |
2/9 | 2/14 | Homework 2/9 | Built the format string for plots using string concatenate |
2/2 | | Homework 2/2 | Python scripts for three distinct models. |
1/31 | 2/2 | make a plot of 10 cos( 3t + 5) for 3 periods. Use red
dashed line, and mark the points with '+'. You need at least 45 points (You have to import the module where the cos function is defined) | |
1/26 | 1/30 | HW 01/26 | swap a pair of tuples |
1/2 | 1/26 | Implement Babylonian algorithm, execute the loop 10 times | |
1/17 | 1/19 | Complete the "in class lab" of 1/17 -- Turn in a printout of various0 .py with fixed names and documentation describing
what each function does, and a printout of the de-scrambled scrambledUp.py -- Demo the functions to Bojin or Haynes | Improving code |
1/12 | 1/17 | Homework 1/12 | Assorted simple coding problems |
1/5 | 1/10 | babylonian algorithm, Chpt 2, pp 17 - 19. Do a modification of p 20, Exercise 1. Estimate 201/2 to 3 significant digits. Compare with correct answer. How many iterations were needed? How many additional digits do you get on each iteration. Use calculator or spreadsheet or any programming language. |
Date | Topic | Reading | Notes |
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4/13 | Reading and writing to a file: See Ullman page 160: ds = np.loadtxt("file.txt", delimiter=",") np.savetxt("newfile.txt", ds) save figure to png file: plt.savefig("filename.png")
simple numpy array operation | In class, read this csv data in: HIV data , then plot it See HERE | |
4/11 | Stepped through Chpt 41 code for (1)Weierstrass function, (2) Sierpinski triangle, (3) Koch curve Paying special attention to use of map and unpacking arguments with * |
Chpt 41 |
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4/6 | Lists (slicing, indexing, mutable), Tuples (not mutable), Strings (using %d and %f), numpy arrays. Recursion, review of map function, zip function, introduction to lambda function |
Chpt 14, 15 (Lists, tuples). Chpt 16 (Strings) . Chpt 22 (numpy). Chpt 26(recursion): Example. | Enter code for Weierstrass function and for Koch curve (Chpt 41 Fractals). Get the code to work properly |
4/4 | Shapiro: chapter 13 (while loop), chapter 19 (for loop) | ||
3/28 | Identifiers, Simple statement | Shapiro: chapter 10 (identifiers), 11 (simple statements, 12 (conditionals) | |
3/23 | "Engineering notation" (not in book), Fundamentals of Big-Oh (Shapiro: chpt 9), Operators, identifiers, precedence (Shapiro: chpt 10) | Shapiro: 8, 9, 10 | Do today: Choose any five problems from Shapiro, Chpt 10, Exercise 1: a - o. Answer by hand, then run Python. Turn in to Bojin |
3/21 | "Numbers in Computers" | Shapiro: chpt 7, 8 | |
3/14 | MIDTERM | ||
3/9 | Prep for Exam -- see homework | ||
3/7 | Nest loop, beginning sort | Do today: exercise slicing: Using strings: HERE Using list of numbers: HERE Another write-up: HERE |
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3/2 | More plotting functions: Example: HERE Modifed in class: HERE Another simple I/O example: HERE | Shapiro, chapter 23 | |
2/28 | Random numbers, histograms, probability distributions | Shapiro: 31.1 | |
2/16 | Laboratory Exercises | ||
2/14 | (1) Python script to demonstrate roll of die (2) Estimate area under curve (the integral) using rectangles (3) Estimate area under curve (the integral) using Monte Carlo method | ||
2/9 | Sample code: 1.py x(t+1) = x(t) + 1/(t^2) points on a circle building a format string using concatenate |
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2/7 | Sample code: s1.py models harmonic series s2.py models series using mod 3 |
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2/2 | Sample code: oscillation.py exponential_growth.py |
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1/31 | build a list, basic plotting | import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot(x, y) plt.show() | |
1/26 | Tuples, slicing | ||
1/24 | Review of flowcharting -- actual work-thru of examples | Draw flowcharts for various0.py functions f0 f05 f1 f2 f4 -- fix f4! f5 f7 | See draw.io for a flowchart drawing program |
1/17 | Working with ONE partner at a time, each person turns in his own copy of the solutions:
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1/17 | STOP!! No class today. water over ice! | ||
1/12 | Chapter 2 | A Byte of Python tutorial Read ahead Chapter 20 | |
1/10 | Assignments. Using functions. Flowcharting, Babylonian Algorithm | Shapiro: chpt 2 - 4 | In class: Write a Python function, input a, b, c (of quadratic eqn), return first answer. Write second Python function, input a, b, c (of quadratic eqn), return second answer Write third Python function, input a, b, c (of quadratic eqn), return both answers |
1/5 | Course Orientation, Python environment | Shapiro, Chpt 4 | In class: Write a Python script with 3 functions: (1) square the parameter, (2) cube the parameter (3) dealer's choice |