Session Details

Week 1, Session 3 — Tue Sep 8

Reading

  1. 2.5-3.3
    (28 pages)

HW Due

  1. HW 2
    Programming part due Wednesday; other parts Tuesday

Topics

  1. Program output
  2. Variables and assignment
  3. Definite Loops
  4. Basic types: numbers (int and float)
  5. Math library
  6. Accumulator problem(s)

Outline

  1. [5 min] Hand-back quizzes, discuss questions
  2. [5 min] Fix IDLE start-up directory using step 4 of the Installing Python 2.5 instructions
  3. [15 min] Names, expressions, and output statements
  4. [10 min] Variables and assignments,
  5. [15 min] Definite loops, for loops, counted loops, examples using loops
  6. [10 min] Data types, numeric data types
  7. [10 min] Numeric operations, math library functions
  8. [5 min] Break
  9. [15 min] Factorial
  10. [20 min] Hands-on pycreate actuator demo
  11. [5 min] Finish daily quiz and point out homework to them.

Assignments to types

HW Assigned

  1. HW 3