CS 2803-DMCS Spring 2018

Weekly Schedule

Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays from 16:30 - 17:45

Recitations: Thursdays from 18:00 - 19:15 in Molecular Science & Engr 1224

Lecture Schedule

Topics link to slides, where available.

ITCS means Interactive Think CS Textbook

TP means Think Python, 2nd Edition, by Allen B. Downey, O'Reilly Media, December 2015. Available free at http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/ and from O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920045267.do

Date	Topics	Reading and Resources	Reminders
Python Review
Week 1
2018-01-08	"Ice Storm" - No Class
2018-01-10	Intro to Python	ITCS - Introduction TP 1 Video: Intro to Python	HW0 Released 2018-01-10 Registration Deadline (2018-01-12)
Week 2
2018-01-15	MLK Day - No Class
2018-01-17	Snow Day - No Class		HW0 Due 2018-01-18
Week 3
2018-01-22	Values and Variables Functions Modules and Programs	ITCS - Simple Data TP 2 Video: Values and Variables ITCS - Functions ITCS - Turtles TP 3 ITCS - Modules TP 1,14 hanglib Exercise: BMI Module Exercise: Hangman	HW1 Released 2018-01-22
2018-01-24	Functions Modules and Programs Data Structures	ITCS - Functions ITCS - Turtles TP 3 ITCS - Modules TP 1,14 hanglib Exercise: BMI Module Exercise: Hangman ITCS - Lists ITCS - Dictionaries TP 10,11,12 Video: Data Structures Exercise: Data Utilities	Verification of Participation (Faculty) (2018-01-26)
Week 4
2018-01-29	iPython Control Structures	ITCS - Selection ITCS - Iteration TP 5, 7 Exercise: Grades Module
2018-01-31	Functional programming	TP 19	HW1 Due 2018-02-01
Week 5
2018-02-05	Functional programming	TP 19
2018-02-07	Exam 1	cs2316-exam1-practice.pdf cs2316-exam1-practice-answers.pdf	HW2 Released 2018-02-14
Data Formats, Retrieval, Storage, and Delivery
Week 6
2018-02-12	Classes and Objects	ITCS - Classes and Objects OOP Code TP 15 - 18 Exercise: Treating People as Objects
2018-02-14	File IO CSV Files	IP 8 Exercise: Tree IP 8 Exercise: Student Emails (Sample Answer) Exercise: Tides Exercise: Calculate Grades	HW2 Due 2018-02-14
Week 7
2018-02-19	Data Exchange Formats	IP 8 XML Details Python XML and Database APIs JSON Spec people.xml Exercise: Books	Progress Reports Due (Faculty) (2018-02-19)
2018-02-21	HTML Regular Expressions	IP 8 IP 7 Python RE Module Python Regex HowTo
Week 8
2018-02-26	Web Scraping Web Services	Beautiful Soup wx.py movie.py Exercise: Company Scraper IP 8 Requests OAuth JSON Spec
2018-02-28	Web Scraping Web Services	Beautiful Soup wx.py movie.py Exercise: Company Scraper IP 8 Requests OAuth JSON Spec
Week 9
2018-03-05	Relational Databases SQL DDL SQL CRUD	MySQL Guide Exercise: Registration Database Exercise: Pubs Queries MySQL Guide - on databases course web site Exercise: Registration Database Exercise: Pubs Queries
2018-03-07	SQL Queries Python Database API	MySQL Guide - on databases course web site Exercise: Registration Database Exercise: Exercise: Dorms Queries Python XML and Database APIs Python DB-API Python SQLite API PyMySQL
Week 10
2018-03-12	SQL Queries Python Database API	MySQL Guide - on databases course web site Exercise: Registration Database Exercise: Exercise: Dorms Queries Python XML and Database APIs Python DB-API Python SQLite API PyMySQL	HW3 Released 2018-03-12
2018-03-14	Flask	IP 9 Flask Web site Gradeboook App	Grade Mode Deadline (2018-03-14) Grade Substitution Deadline (2018-03-14) Withdrawal Deadline (2018-03-14)
Week 11
2018-03-19	Spring Break - No Class
2018-03-21	Spring Break - No Class
Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Big Data
Week 12
2018-03-26	Data Analytics in Python NumPy	SciPy.org Numpy Manual
2018-03-28	Pandas	Pandas.PyData.org	HW3 Due 2018-03-29
Week 13
2018-04-02	Pandas	Pandas.PyData.org
2018-04-04	Pandas	Pandas.PyData.org
Week 14
2018-04-09	Data Visualization with Python Natural Language Processing	Matplotlib.org NLTK
2018-04-11	Scikit-learn	Scikit-learn.org	HW4 Released 2018-04-11
Week 15
2018-04-16	tensorflow
2018-04-18	Hadoop		HW4 Due 2018-04-20
Week 16
2018-04-23	Spark		Final Instructional Days (2018-04-23)
Final Exams
2018-04-27	14:50 - 17:40 (Possibly a Final Project)