Python 100 Spring, 2013 March-26 through May 28th, Tuesday, 6 PM
At the end of the class, students will have completed a project of their own choosing, and been exposed to different advanced topics of the python programming language. Most programming class coursework involves small, self contained, assignments. While this is useful for learning specific concepts, it is hard to develop and understanding of the issues associated with larger software projects. This class gives students a chance to develop a significant project with the guidance of the instructors.
Lecture notes, sample code, etc will be available in the course github project:
https://github.com/PythonCHB/PythonCertSpring
Jeff Silverman [email protected]
Christopher Barker [email protected]
Students will need a laptop computer with python 2.6.x or 2.7.x and MySQL or PostGres already installed.
##Assessment Criteria & Course Expectations
Students are required to attend 8 out 10 classes, and complete a significant software project in the Python language, either individually or as part of a small group.
Courses in this program are arranged sequentially. To advance to the next course in this program, students are required to earn a grade of Successful Completion (SC) in this course. Students must successfully complete all courses in the program to receive a certificate of completion.
Each student will develop a substantial project throughout the class. It can be an individual project, or a group project with a small group from the class (3-4 students). We suggest that you consider a group project -- it will give you a chance to practice developing with others, as well as give you a built-on way to get code review, folks to bounce ideas off of, etc.
The project can be anything done primarily in Python: command line utility, desktop GUI, web application, web service, numerical model, smart phone app, you name it.
The projects should be large enough to take everyone in the group about 8-10 hours a week in addition to class time, but small enough that you can get it to a useful state in 8-9 weeks of the class.
Each project group will be expected to present their work in one of the last two classes. The presentations should be focused on the software design, rather than the problem solved (though, of course, we'll want to know what problem you solved...)
We will expect you to use a Revision Control System (likely github), and employ unit testing.
You should set it up with good package structure -- ready to share and/or deploy.
Write some docs: Sphinx!
Confirm to PEP8 (unless you have a company style instead)
Use PyChecker and/or PyLint and/or PyFlakes
Please have your project selected and be prepared to start right in on it on day one!
Each class will typically begin with a lecture and in-class exercises about the lecture topic, totally 1 -- 1-1/2 hours.
The remaining class time will be spent working on your projects in consultation with the instructors.
In addition, as we work with you on your projects, we will highlight for the class interesting problems and their solutions that come up in class.
March 26th
Unit Testing: unitest, nose, pytest
-- Chris
April 2nd
The python debugger pdb
-- Jeff
April 9th
Special topics: lambda, decorators, properties...
-- Chris
April 16th
Relational databases, SQL
-- Jeff
April 23rd
Non relational databases
-- Jeff
April 30th
Advanced OO: __new()__, super(), mixins, etc.
Intro to Numerical Computation: numpy
-- Chris
May 7th Threading / Multiprocessing
-- Jeff
May 14th
Performance / Profiling
-- Chris
May 21st
Desktop GUIs: wxPython
-- Jeff and Chris
May 28th
Student Presentations
-- Jeff and Chris
C API ctypes cython
(writing your own, not just using them...)
pickle, shelve, JSON, CSV, XML, BSDdb
tkInter wxPython pyGTK pyQT / pySide
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