Table of Contents

1. Day 1 - Numbers

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 3.1.1 to 3.1.4
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

2. Day 2 - Strings & Images

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 3.1.5 to 3.1.7
• Intro (20 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

3. Day 3 - Definitions

Est 55 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 3.2
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

4. Day 4 - Functions

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 1
• Pre-reading: 3.3
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

5. Day 5 - Conditionals, Tests, and spy

Est 65 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 1
• Pre-reading: 3.4
• Intro (15 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

6. Day 6 - Introduction to tables

Est 45 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 2
• Pre-reading: 4.1.1 & 4.1.2
• Intro (15 min)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

7. Day 7 - Functions over rows

Est 45 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 1, 2
• Pre-reading: 4.1.3, 4.1.4.1, 4.1.4.2
• Intro (15 min)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

8. Day 8 - Adding columns

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 1, 2
• Pre-reading: 4.1.4.3, 4.1.4.4
• Intro (15 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

9. Day 9 - Tests for tables

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 1, 2
• Pre-reading: 4.1.5, DRAFT:4.1.6
• Intro (15 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

10. Day 10 - Cleaning data

Est 55 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 2
• Pre-reading: DRAFT:4.2.1
• Intro (20 mins)
• Class Exercises (30 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

11. Day 11 - Task planning & visualization

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.2.5, 4.2.6
• Intro (25 mins)
• Class Activity (30 mins)
• Wrap up (5 mins)

12. Day 12 - Extracting columns

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: DRAFT:5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4.1
• Intro (25 mins)
• Class Exercise (30 mins)
• Wrap-Up (5 mins)

13. Day 13 - Operating on Lists

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 5.1.4 (aside from 5.1.4.1), 5.1.6
• Intro (20 mins)
• Class Exercise (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

14. Day 14 - Variables and loops

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 3
• Pre-reading: DRAFT:9.1.8.5 (except 9.1.8.5.4)
• Intro (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

15. Day 15 - Working with Lists

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 3
• Pre-reading: None
• Intro (5 minster)
• Class Exercises (50 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 minutess)

16. Day 16 - Testing and variables that change

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 3
• Pre-reading: DRAFT:9.1.8.5.4
• Intro (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

17. Day 17 - Structured data

Est 55 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 4
• Pre-reading: 6.1.1.1, 6.1.2.1, 6.1.2.2, 6.1.3.1
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

18. Day 18 - Conditional data

Est 55 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 4
• Pre-reading: 6.1.1.2, 6.1.2.3, 6.1.3.2, 6.1.3.3
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

19. Day 19 - Recursive functions by examples

Est 55 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 5
• Pre-reading: 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5, 5.2.6, 5.2.7
• Intro (20 mins)
• Class Exercises (30 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

20. Day 20 - Templates for lists

Est 55 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 5
• Pre-reading: 5.3
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

21. Day 21 - Intro to Trees

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 7.1.1
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

22. Day 22 - Trees as recursive data

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 6
• Pre-reading: 7.1.2
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

23. Day 23 - More trees

Est 55 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 7.1.3, 7.1.4
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

24. Day 24 - Transition to Python 1

Est 55 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 8
• Pre-reading: 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5
• Intro (20 mins)
• Class Exercises (30 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

25. Day 25 - Transition to Python 2

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 9.1.6, 9.1.7
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

26. Day 26 - Transition to Python 3

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 9
• Pre-reading: 9.1.8 (skip 9.1.8.5, since we've already seen that on Day 14).
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

27. Day 27 - Scoping & equality

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 10
• Pre-reading: 11.1, 11.2
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

28. Day 28 - Mutable Data Structures and the Heap

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 7
• Pre-reading: DRAFT:11.5
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

29. Day 29 - Tables in Python

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 10.1.1, 10.1.2, 10.1.3
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

30. Day 30 - Computing columns with Pandas

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 10.1.4 (PROBABLY EXPAND), 10.1.5
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

31. Day 31 - Visualizing Data with Python

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 10.1.7 (EXPAND), 10.1.8
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

32. Day 32 - File I/O

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: NEED TO WRITE! -- New section in DCIC about manual file I/O, to supplement existing content loading CSVs from files.
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

33. Day 33 - Dictionaries

Est 50 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Pre-reading: 9.2
• Intro (10 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)