QCF Workshop - Fall 2018

Lecture Schedule

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 13:30 - 14:45 in Room 312 in the Executive Education wing of the Scheller College of Business

Please note the following room changes!

The 13, 18, and 20 September sessions will be held in Howey (Physics) room L4.
The 16 and 18 October sessions will be held in Room 314 in the Executive Education wing of the Scheller College of Business

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
Week 1
2018-08-21	Course Intro and Tool Setup
2018-08-23	Intro to Python	ITCS - Introduction TP 1 Video: Intro to Python	Registration Deadline (2018-08-24)
Week 2
2018-08-28	Values and Variables Functions	ITCS - Simple Data TP 2 Video: Values and Variables Drill - Values and Variables ITCS - Functions ITCS - Turtles TP 3
2018-08-30	Modules and Programs Data Structures	ITCS - Modules TP 1,14 hanglib Exercise: BMI Module Exercise: Hangman ITCS - Lists ITCS - Dictionaries TP 10,11,12 Video: Data Structures
Week 3
2018-09-04	iPython Data Structures	ITCS - Lists ITCS - Dictionaries TP 10,11,12 Video: Data Structures
2018-09-06	Control Structures	ITCS - Selection ITCS - Iteration TP 5, 7 Drill: Data Transformation Exercise: Data Utilities Exercise: Grades Module
Week 4
2018-09-11	Control Structures	ITCS - Selection ITCS - Iteration TP 5, 7 Drill: Data Transformation Exercise: Data Utilities Exercise: Grades Module
2018-09-13	Functional programming	TP 19
Week 5
2018-09-18	Career Fair - No Class
2018-09-20	Classes and Objects	ITCS - Classes and Objects OOP Code TP 15 - 18 Exercise: Treating People as Objects
Week 6
2018-09-25	File IO CSV Files	IP 8 Exercise: Tree IP 8 Exercise: Student Emails (Sample Answer) Exercise: Tides Exercise: Calculate Grades
2018-09-27	Data Exchange Formats	IP 8 XML Details Python XML and Database APIs JSON Spec people.xml Exercise: Books
Week 7
2018-10-02	HTML Regular Expressions	IP 8 IP 7 Python RE Module Python Regex HowTo
2018-10-04	Web Scraping	Beautiful Soup wx.py movie.py Exercise: Company Scraper
Week 8
2018-10-09	Fall Recess - No Class
2018-10-11	Web Services	IP 8 Requests OAuth JSON Spec
Week 9
2018-10-16	Data Analytics in Python NumPy	Example code SciPy.org Numpy Manual
2018-10-18	Pandas	Pandas.PyData.org Exercise: Health Data Analysis
Week 10
2018-10-23	Data Visualization with Python	Matplotlib.org
2018-10-25	Natural Language Processing	NLTK
Where to go from here
Webdev	Flask	IP 9 Flask Web site Gradeboook App
Big Data	Hadoop Scala Spark
Julia	Julia Programming Language