Com S 127 - Archived Course Materials from Fall 2016

• Syllabus

• Textbooks

  1. There Are Eels in my Hovercraft. This is a set of notes written by the instructor. It is a work in progress that is currently being updated for Python 3 and posted in html format.
     • Chapter 1
     • Chapter 2
     • Chapter 3
     • Chapter 4
     • Chapter 5
     • Chapter 6
     • Chapter 7
     • Chapter 8
     • Chapter 9
     • Chapter 13
     • Chapter 14
     • Chapter 16
     • Chapter 17

     (You can get the whole draft as a pdf file too, but this older version is based on Python 2: Eels_v0.1.pdf)

  2. The second textbook is a free, online interactive version of a book called How to Think Like a Computer Scientist that has been sort of an online classic for a while. See

     http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.html

     and take a look at the "ActiveCode" and "CodeLens" features. Click on the book title at the top of the page to get the whole table of contents. For now, don't worry about registering or logging in, you can still read and use the book.

  The course basically covered all the posted chapters of the first book, plus Chapters 10 and 14 of the second text. See the topics page, below, for details.

• Topics list

  Day-by-day list of topics, with links to code examples (in reverse chronological order)

• Assignment documentation

  Each assignment includes a detailed pdf file and possibly some sample code or other files. There may be additional instructions or changes posted on Piazza)

• Exam review problems

• Lab writeups

  (All the labs except 1, 2, and 5 are based on the interactive features of the runestone platform. See this part of the second textbook for info on this.
  • Lab 1
  • Lab 2
  • Lab 3
  • Lab 4
  • Lab 5
  • Lab 6
  • Lab 7
  • Lab 8
  • Lab 9
  • Lab 10
  • Lab 11
  • Lab 12