Practice final solution

December 6th, 2009

Of course several of the questions allow for multiple correct solutions.
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No lab on Friday

December 2nd, 2009

Our class will not meet on Friday 4 December. Instead, that time will be devoted to office hours. Perhaps more of you will be willing to ask your questions in smaller groups.

Practice Final

November 30th, 2009

Here are some questions to warm up your little gray cells for the final exam. Don’t wait till the last minute to work through these. Come to class or office hours with your questions.
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Python to Java

November 30th, 2009

Today we will talk about the relationship of Python to other programming languages, especially Java.
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Computer Graphics!

November 20th, 2009

Today we looked at the implementation of some graphics primitives using numpy arrays.
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Accessing the web

November 18th, 2009

Today we talked about how the web works and how we can use it from python. We ended by looking at a simple script to access the weather forecast from yahoo.
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Check your grades on BlackBoard

November 18th, 2009

The TA’s are worried that a few of you might be missing some things you thought you turned in…

Functions we use

November 18th, 2009

Annie suggested a list of functions we use and what they do would be helpful. Good idea!

Here is version 1 generated by a simple script. I’ll post the script and its input later.
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Reading and Analyzing Typing Data

November 16th, 2009

Today we talked about reading the data from a typical typing experiment and then doing some simple analysis.
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Hangman!

November 13th, 2009

Today we sketched how a hangman game might work.
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