Course Desc<x>ription
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<br>This course introduces fundamental programming concepts in the Python language 
<br>and related 
<br>environment.  
<br>Fundamental concepts include overview of computer systems, Python environment 
<br>setup, Python 
<br>language 
<br>overview, command line interface, numbers, string formatting, sequences, 
<br>dictionaries and sets, 
<br>control flow, 
<br>exception, file, function, recursion, ob<x>ject orientation, inheritance, 
<br>polymorphism, and modules.  The 
<br>programming environment will be primarily text-ba<x>sed in Unix environment, 
<br>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 
<br>Python Language, 
<br>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-
<br>person discussion 
<br>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 
<br>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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<br>Course website
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<br>https://elearn.nthu.edu.tw/course/view.php?id=15630
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<br>There will be an organizational meeting on September 13, 2021, at 9:00 a.m.
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<br>The meeting will be held on Google meet. Due to the maximum number of 
<br>participants allowed on Google Meet, we will run two meeting rooms simultaneously 
<br>ba<x>sed on whether your student ID number is even or odd.
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<br>If your student ID number is odd：https://meet.google.com/uue-jngq-oxk
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<br>If your student ID number is even：https://meet.google.com/kry-ozyx-prg
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