Session Details

Week 2, Session 7 — Thu Sep 16

Reading

  1. Sections 5.6-5.10
    20 pages

HW Due

  1. HW 6 Note: this homework is due MONDAY (not Thursday), per special instructions given in class.

Topics

  1. Processing files
  2. Writing simple functions
  3. Functions calling other functions.

Outline

  1. [ 5 min] Hand-back quizzes, discuss questions
  2. [10 min] Sequences and indexing: negative indices.
  3. [10 min] String format specifiers
  4. [10 min] File Processing
  5. [20 min] File exercises
  6. [ 5 min] Break
  7. [20 min] Function parameters, return values
  8. [25 min] begin HW

Resources

  1. Slides Files and functions

HW Assigned

  1. HW 7