Session Details

Week 2, Session 5 — Thu Dec 9

Prep

  1. Zelle, Chapter 4
    BUT much of Chapter 4 has details that you should just skim,
  2. returning to the text for reference when you need those details.
  3. For example, all of §4.8 (and much of the preceding sections) is in this category — just skim those sections briefly and return to them as needed for reference.
  4. Note that our zellegraphics package replaces the author's graphics package

HW Due

  1. HW 4

Topics

  1. Types
  2. Sequences (especially Lists)

Outline

  1. [10 min] Hand-back quizzes, discuss questions
  2. [20 min] Basic types, data types, numeric data types, numeric operations
  3. [25 min] Numeric types
  4. [5 min] Break
  5. [25 min] List operations
  6. [5 minutes] List comprehensions, lists of Points
  7. [20 minutes] Begin Homework 4

Resources

  1. Slides: Objects — constructing, applying methods, referencing instance variables (aka fields)

HW Assigned

  1. HW 5