Computer Programming in Python 
                     Columbia Science Honors Program, Spring 2018 
                     Instructor: James Lin, jl3782@columbia.edu 
                     Teaching Assistant: Kelly Ryu, hr2362@columbia.edu 
                     Website: www.columbia.edu/~jl3782/shp 
                      
                     Course Schedule 
                     The Course Schedule will almost definitely change as the semester goes along. 
                      
                     1/27 – Lecture 1 
                         •   Introduction to Computer Science and Programming 
                         •   Your First Python Program: “Hello, World!” 
                         •   LAB 
                                 o  Setting Up 
                                 o  Minecraft Hour of Code Exercise – Practicing Algorithms 
                     2/3 – Lecture 2 
                         •   Python Programming Fundamentals 
                                 o  Data Types and Examples 
                                 o  Operators and Built-In Functions 
                                 o  Variables and Expressions 
                                 o  if-elif-else Statements 
                         •   LAB 
                                 o  Exercise Set 1 
                     2/10 – Lecture 3 
                         •   More Python Programming Fundamentals 
                                 o  while Loops 
                                 o  break 
                                 o  continue 
                         •   Data Structures 
                                 o  Lists 
                         •   LAB 
                                 o  Exercise Set 1 
                     2/17 – Lecture 4 
                         •   More Python Programming Fundamentals 
                                 o  for LoopsReview 
                                 o  Defining and calling functions 
                         •   Data Structures 
                                 o  Dictionaries 
                         •   LAB 
                                 o  Exercise Set 1 
                                 o  21 
                      
                     2/24 – Lecture 5 
                         •   Sorting Problem and Selection Sort 
                         •   Intro to Merge Sort 
                         •   LAB 
                                 o  Implement a Sort (optional) 
                     3/3 – Lecture 6 
                         •   Algorithms and Analysis 
                                 o  Intro to Recursion 
                                 o  Merge Sort 
                                 o  Big-O Analysis 
                         •   More Python and CS Fundamentals 
                                 o  Von Neumann Architecture 
                                 o  File I/O 
                         •   LAB 
                                 o  Implement a Sort (optional) 
                                 o  Term Project 
                     3/10 – Lecture 7 
                         •   Guest Lectures 
                         •   LAB 
                                 o  Term Project 
                     3/17 – NO CLASS, Columbia Spring Break 
                              
                     3/24 – Review and Intro to NumPy with Kelly 
                      
                     3/31 – NO CLASS, Easter and Passover 
                      
                     4/7 – Review and NumPy with Kelly 
                      
                     4/14 – NumPy with Kelly 
                      
                     4/21 – NO CLASS, SHP Break 
                      
                     4/28 – NumPy with Kelly 
                      
                     5/5 – NumPy with Kelly