Information Infrastructure I (Intro to programming with python) (4 CR)

Instructor: Yuzhen Ye, School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington
Contact: yye@indiana.edu
Association instructor: Matt Whitehead, Huijun Wang
Peer leaders: Eugene Chang, Marie Bautista, Billy Falotico, Ryan Patena
Class meets: 4:00P-5:15P TR BU 400 (Business School) & labs on Thursday or Friday
Lab information & Office hour
Course webpage (http://mendel.informatics.indiana.edu/~yye/lab/teaching/spring2009-I210.php)
Notice: Solutions to some lab assignments are available now at the lab assignments page!

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• Is this course for me?
  1. What can I learn from this course?
     • Fundamental computer programming concepts and skills (regardless the computer language that is chosen).
     • Coding in Python (with or without graphical user interface).
  2. How can I do well in this course? Write many many codes.
• Recommended prerequisites: INFO I101 Introduction to Informatics, INFO I201 Mathematical Foundations of Informatics
• Required textbook: Guide to programming with python, by Michael Dawson. check this book at Amazon
  
• Course structure: The course will be taught in three classes each week, two lectures and one lab. This semester, we will try out the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) approach (so we will introduce various activies in the lectures) (check out the gallary). Still the associate instructors will help you tackle assigned problems that use the topics and methods learned that week in the labs.
• Course evaluation
  • Mid-term exam: 20% (Cumulative); Final exam: 20% (Cumulative); Lab assignments: 40% (see details); Weekly in-lab quizzes: 20% (Note: the lowest quiz grade & lab assignment grade will be dropped.)
  • Final Game Project
  • What course grade will I get? (see the grade and points table)
• Tentative topics & schedule
  

   

  Week	Dates	Topics	Readings	Slides¬es	PLTL-activities	Assignments
  1	Jan 13 & 15	Getting started; Basic variable types, variables, simple I/O; Useless Trivia game	Ch 1 & Ch 2	Tues & Thur	M&M, S'mores algorithm & Variable	Projects from Ch 1 & 2
  2	Jan 20&22	Control the flow (Branching, while/for loops, planning); Guess My Number game	Ch 3	Tues & Thur	Boolean condition game & Sudoku puzzle	Projects from Ch 3
  3	Jan 27&29	Strings, tuples; Word Jumble game	Ch 4	Tues & Thur	Caesar's cipher & Slicing	Projects from Ch 4
  4	Feb 3&5	Lists, dictionaries; Sorting; Hangman game	Ch 5	Tues & Thur	Sorting & Dictionary	Lab assignments #4
  5	Feb 10&12	Functions; Tic-Tac-Toe game	Ch 6	Tues & Thur	Picasso & Function	Lab assignments #5
  6	Feb 17&19	File handling (read&write), exceptions; sys & os modules; Trivia Challenge game	Ch 7	Tues & Thur	IsWord & Factorial	Lab assignments #6
  7	Feb 24&26	Review (Tues); MIDTERM EXAM (Thurs); NO lab
  8	Mar 3&5	OOP: Classes, constructors, attributes, class attributes, static methods	Ch 8	Tues & Thur	Robot & Who are you	Lab assignments #7
  9	Mar 10&12	OOP: Object encapsulation, privacy, properties; Critter Caretaker game	Ch 8	Tues & Thur; a note	You are driving me crazy & Test me	Lab assignments #8
  10	Mar 17&19	Spring recess; no class
  11	Mar 24&26	Messages, combining objects, inheritance	Ch 9	Tues & Thur	Flip game note 1 & note 2	Lab assignments #9
  12	Mar 31&Apr 2	Creating modules; Blackjack game	Ch 9	Tues & Thur	Smarter Flip game computer opponent & Knowledge check	Lab assignments #10
  13	Apr 7&9	GUI development; Mad Lib game	Ch 10	Tues & Thur; more on Tkinter	Who controls the flow of the program?; Number cruncher	Lab assignments #11
  14	Apr 14&16	Graphics; Pizza Panic game	Ch 11	Tues & Thur	Banana Bash	Lab assignments #12
  15	Apr 21&23	Sound, animation, program development; the astrocrash game	Ch 12	Tues & Thur	Banana blowout	Lab assignments #13
  16	Apr 28&30	Review		review slides		No lab assignments
  17	May 5	FINAL EXAM: 2:45-4:45 p.m., Thurs., May 7

• Course policies
  • You are responsible for conducting yourself according to the Indiana University Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct (link)
  • You turn in only YOUR OWN CODES
• Exam schedule
  • The final exam will be held at the time scheduled by the Registrar, namely 2:45-4:45 on Thursday, May 7 (in the lecture room BU400).
  • It is the student's responsibility to notify the Dean of your school of any final exam conflicts, and to alert all affected instructors before the halfway point in the semester if you are scheduled for more than three final exams on the same day.

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