INFO-I210

Information Infrastructure I

• Syllabus
• System Commands
• Functional Programming
• Imperative Programming
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Final Review and Exam
• Inactive Topics
• Reference
  • Style Guidelines
  • Studying
  • Textbooks
  • Video Tutorials
  • Lab Guide
  • Python
  • Other Software
  • Recreation
  • Not Smoking
  • Home Pages
• Canvas
• Instructor
• Credits

Topics

Course Information

• Syllabus
• Permission to register for the online section

Introduction and System Commands

Week 1

• Introduction to Computer Science: readings, Lab 0 (screen test), and Quiz 1 instructions in Canvas
• To get your computer ready for this course, follow the Computer Setup Guide.
• A Guide to Linux at IU East
• FLOSS Manuals: Introduction to the Command Line
• University of Surrey Unix Tutorial
• Lab 1: System Commands
• Unix Self-Test
• Quiz 2 in Canvas

Part 1: Functional Programming

Week 2 Expressions, Variables, and Functions

• Readings, Quizzes 3-4, and Review Test 1 in Canvas
• Lecture Notes: Functional Programming 1: Expressions and Functions
  • Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Lecture Notes: Editing Python Functions
  • Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Variables and Expressions Self-Test
• Functions Self-Test
• Lab 2 Numbers, strings, lists, and functions

Week 3 Conditional and Recursive Functions

• Functional Programming 2: Recursive Functions I, with Sifflet
• Lecture Recordings: Sifflet Tutorial 1-5 (restricted)
• Lab 3: Sifflet 1

Week 4 List Recursion

• Functional Programming 3: Recursive Functions II, with Sifflet
• Lecture Recordings: Sifflet Tutorial 6-8, with additional lessons on designing recursive functions (restricted)
• Pair Programming
• Lab 4: Sifflet 2

Week 5 Conditionals and Recursion in Python

• Boolean Expressions and Conditional Statements
• Recursive Design and List Structure
• Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Conditional Statements and Boolean Expressions Self-Test
• Recursive Functions Self-Test
• Lab 5: Conditionals and Sums

Week 6 Higher-Order Functions

• Lecture Notes
• Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Self-Test
• Lab 6: Higher-Order Functions
• Discussion, Quiz(zes) and Review Test: in Canvas

Part 2: Imperative Programming

Week 7: Introduction and Graphical Programming

• Lecture Notes
• Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Lab 7: Drawing Flowers

Week 8: Numerical Programming

• Lecture Notes
• Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Lab 8: Accumulator Loops

Week 9: Strings and Lists

• Strings and Codes -- Lecture Notes
  • Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Lists and Tuples -- Lecture Notes
  • Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Lab 9: Strings and Lists, Imperative Style

Week 10: Dictionaries, Files and URLs

• Dictionaries and Statistics -- Lecture notes
  • Lecture recordings (restricted)
• While, Files, and URLs -- Lecture notes
  • Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Lab 10: Dictionaries, While, Files, and Formatting

Week 11: Image Processing

• Installing cImage
• Lecture notes
• Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Lab 11: Image Processing and the While Statement

Part 3: Object-Oriented Programming

Week 12: Objects and Classes

• Lecture notes
• Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Lab 12: Bank Account Class

Week 13: More Classes

• Lecture notes
• Lecture recordings (restricted)

Week 14: Inheritance

• Revised Lecture notes
• Lecture recordings (restricted)
• Revised Lab 13: Classes and Inheritance

Final Review and Exam

• Review of Dictionaries

Inactive Topics

• Events and Video Games

Fractals and Tree Recursion

• Lecture notes
• To be added Lecture recordings
• Lab: Drawing Trees

Reference

Python Style Guidelines

• Coding Standards for Python Programs

Studying

• William J. Rapaport's How to Study: A Brief Guide
• Deliberate Programming: 3 ways to get better, faster

Textbooks

• 1. Introduction to the Command Line
• 2. CS for All
• 3. Sifflet Tutorial
• 4. Python Programming in Context, second edition, 2014, by Bradley N. Miller and David L. Ranum (publisher's catalog)
  • Authors' blog with corrections, source files, data and image files, etc.
  • Python Programming in Context (first edition) with downloads for cTurtle and cImage
  • Prof. Weber's installer scripts: cturtle-installer/setup.py; cimage-installer/setup.py.

Video Tutorials, (err, Turtorials?)

• David Ranum's Python Programming Tutorials

Lab Guide

• A Guide to Linux at IU East
• Introduction to the Command Line, a guide to Unix commands, deeper than the preceding
• Unix Tutorial for Beginners from the University of Surrey

Python, Programming, and Computer Science

• Python Home Page
• Python Style Guide
• "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python" — online/print book by A.B. Downey, J. Elkner, and C. Meyers
• Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3 on Wikibooks
• Learning to Program, by Alan Gauld, with Python and two other languages
• A Byte of Python — online book by Swaroop
• Python.org
• Python 3 Tutorial, by Guido van Rossum.
• Python 3 HOWTOs
• Python 3 Library Reference, by Guido van Rossum.

Other Software

• Sifflet

Recreation

• Foxtrot
• User Friendly
• Cut the Knot
• The Pi Bill
• Sorting Animated

Not Smoking

• Learning to program can be stressful. Does stress make you want to smoke? ACS Guide to Quitting Smoking (why and how)

Home Pages

• Informatics
• Management Information Systems
• IU East
• IU

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Credits

"Python Odie" by Osvaldo Santana Neto: Open Clip Art Library

Bald eagle photos: BaldEagles.com