Week 1

• Welcome, Administrivia
• What is Programming? What are Programs? How are they Born? Etc.
  Ints, Floats, Strings, Operators, Console Input, Type casts
• File Output, If-Elif-Else, While Loops, Functions
• Lists, Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries, For loops, Range, Command-Line Arguments
• Recitation, Reinforcement

Week 2

• No class - Memorial Day
• Exam #1
• continue, break, exceptions
• Formatted strings, diving deeper into exceptions
• Strings: join(), split(), isalpha(); Using Collections: Inverted Indexes

Week 3

• Recitation, Reinforcement
• Sorting, slicing, multiple assignment, etc
• Nesting collections
• Recursive programming, call stack, mechanics, possibly tail recursion and recursion removal
• Recursive thinking and problem solving

Week 4

• Recitation, Reinforcement
• Exam #2
• Exam #2 Post-Mortem
• Tkinter Graphics
• Events and Animation

Week 5

• Recitation, Reinforcement
• Python quirks and novelties
• Generators, Generator expression, Pipelines thereof
• Coroutines, Pipelines thereof; Regular Expressions
• Object-Oriented Python
• Decorators

Week 6

• Recitation, Reinforcement
• SQL, Databases, Interacting with databases
• Network and Web Programming
• Threads and Threaded Programming
• Final Exam -- The best is saved for last