Session Details

Week 1, Session 2 — Mon Sep 7

Reading

  1. 1.3, 1.5-2.4
    (24 pages)

HW Due

  1. HW 1

Topics

  1. Basic program structure
  2. Program output

Outline

  1. [10 min] Hand-back quizzes, discuss questions
  2. [10 min] Show off animations from HW1
  3. [5 min] Fix IDLE start-up directory using step 4 of the Installing Python 2.5 instructions
  4. [35 min] Parts of programs -- chaos in Python
  5. [5 min] Break
  6. [20 min] Software development process
  7. [15 min] Names, expressions, and output statements
  8. [5 min] Finish daily quiz and point out homework to them.

Writing simple programs

HW Assigned

  1. HW 2