Covid-19 😷: Our course is fully online this year. I think this has substantial advantages for a course like this one: more pair programming, more online exercises, more chances for feedback on student progress and student goals, and more individualized paths to becoming expert programmers. —Chris

1. The basics of numerical types and strings
2. The basics of lists, built-ins, for-loops, conditionals, and function definitions

1. The basics of executing files, homework formatting, dicts, and tuples
2. Review exercises and miscellaneous items

1. Range, advanced assignments, logical statements, printing, and function definitions
2. Basic file and CSV reading and writing; os.path basics

1. In-class hackathon: Anagram finder [Chris's implementation]
2. Iterators and generators

1. In-class hacking using the Ed platform

1. No class; Chris in a workshop

1. Introduction to regular expressions
2. More on regular expressions

1. Using Jupyter notebooks
2. Introduction to Pandas
   [HTML version]
3. Pandas exercises
   [HTML version]

1. Hackathon (== Assignment 7)

1. Introduction to object-oriented programming in Python
   [HTML version; completed version; completed version HTML]
2. Selected earlier homework problems as classes

1. Document formats [HTML version]
2. subprocess [HTML version]

1. Exception handling
2. Unit testing with pytest
3. Sorting
4. Overview of visualization libraries