Course Descrription
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<br>This course introduces fundamental programming concepts in the Python language and related environment.  
<br>Fundamental concepts include overview of computer systems, Python environment setup, Python language 
<br>overview, command line interface, numbers, string formatting, sequences, dictionaries and sets, control flow, 
<br>exception, file, function, recursion, ob<x>ject orientation, inheritance, polymorphism, and modules.  The 
<br>programming environment will be primarily text-ba<x>sed in Unix environment, although graphical user 
<br>interface 
<br>(IDLE) and web-ba<x>sed (Jupyter) will also be demonstrated.  
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<br>Textbooks
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<br>- None required
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<br>References
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<br>- Mark Summerfield, Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language, Second 
<br>Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2010, Person Education, Inc., Boston, MA  USA.
<br>- Python website, www.python.org
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<br>Teaching Method
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<br>- 2 hours of recorded lecture (Mandarin with English captions) and 1 hour of in-person discussion per week.
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<br>Syllabus
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<br>Week 1 - introduction, environment setup
<br>Week 2 - tour of Python
<br>Week 3 - basic types, command-line application
<br>Week 4 - command-line application (cont'd), strings
<br>Week 5 - collections: sequence (list, tuple), set, dict
<br>Week 6 - control constructs: if, while, for
<br>Week 7 - exceptions, files
<br>Week 8 - functions
<br>Week 9 - recursion, functional programming
<br>Week 10 - ob<x>ject-oriented programming part 1: class, method
<br>Week 11 - ob<x>ject-oriented programming part 2: inheritance, operator overloading
<br>Week 12 - generators, iterators
<br>Week 13 - standard library part 1: data types, itertools
<br>Week 14 - standard library part 2: regular ex<x>pressions, Tkinter
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<br>Evaluation 
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<br>30% - assignments
<br>30% - quizzes
<br>40% - final exam
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