CS212 - Practical Python Programming

May 6

Don't forget you have until Friday to fill in what you liked and didn't about the course in the course evaluations. The department is way down in evaluations this year. Help us out. Cheers.

May 4

As promised in class I am only having 7 assignments and as a result I moved the due date for the last assignment to Friday. That was when assignment 8 was going to be due.

Apr 27

On line tests are up for A6b and A7. Have fun!

Apr 27

Note that on assignment 7 the test data has nonascii characters in it. This is a common thing. So when you open the file for reading use:

open("worldCities.csv", 'r', encoding="utf-8")

Apr 27

Test data for assignment 7 is available as tar or zip.

Apr 14

Test data in the assignment 6 is available as tar or zip.

Apr 5

Tests are up for A5. The tests will replace the Screen and Turtle objects by fake ones that print a few characters of telemetry for testing. Your job it to match the telemetry output. There is not graphics produced for the testing. The test files have been updated to include some more tests and the mockturtle code. Give them a try and let me know if they work.

Mar 31

Assignment 5 has been posted.

Mar 26

Homework 4 is now due Sat Mar 27 at 11pm.

Mar 26

You need to install "cImage" (an educational module for images) The module is called named image for import. In an empty directory put the horse picture below and this file:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import image

size=800
win = image.ImageWin(size, size, "My Image")
pic = image.FileImage("horseLg.png")

print(pic.getWidth(), pic.getHeight())

pic.draw(win)
win.exit_on_click()

Mar 25

A picture of a Horse: horseLg.png

Some crime data: crimeByCity.txt, crimeByCityLabels.txt, crimeLL.txt, crimeLLLabels.txt, crime4col.txt

Mar 24

Here is a layout of the program design for problem 4.

Mar 21

The tests are available on the test machine for assignment 4.

Mar 12

Here is the data file for today's class and the data files from which it came. The in class program is in the whiteboard file. z3.txt, crimeByCity.txt, crimeByCityLabels.txt

Mar 10

No class today. Recovering from Covid shot part deux. Hoping to be back on track on Friday.

Feb 20

The typo. The tests are expecting a program named comb2.py not comb.py. Please adjust the name of your code accordingly. Thanks.

Feb 18

Assignment 3 tests are available on the test machine. Have fun!

Feb 17

As per discussion today. Assignment 3 has changed to be: modify the three answers I provide to do things a bit differently. See the assignment. I will post the tests on line tomorrow.

Feb 13

Assignment 3 has been posted. The test data and examples output from each program are available in the test data section in the assignment. The tests should be up on the test machine.

Feb 1
Assignment 2 has been delayed 2 days and to 11pm! Please submit your code early and often.

Jan 30

In the section on Basic Unix in the references section you will see an example of how sdiff works which is how your programs are being compared.

Jan 26
Assignment 2 has been posted. Tests are up on the test machine. Give it a try.

Jan 19
If you are not in town and would like to be marked in the university Covid tracking system as not attending this class in person, please let me know. The U would like to know not to count you as "on campus". I will only to go through this work if you are not in town and so can't be tested.

Jan 13
Warmup Assignment 1 is ready for submission. It is just 10 simple questions that will give me an idea what the direction and speed of this class should be. The department has only speculated and now it is time for real data.

Jan 12
Zoom ID for this class has been updated for this semester and can be found on the BBLearn page in the Online Learning section.

Jan 13
Welcome to the Python Programming course. Be sure to read the material in the Service section below. You are responsible for everything that appears anywhere on the class web pages. Many assignment links will be dead links until we talk about them in class. I will update them and make them available as we need them.