Normal font means a Lecture day, italics means a Discussion day.


Week
Date
Day
Topic
Assignment
 Notes Videos Readings
W0
09/24 Friday Hello, PIC16A Install Anaconda Syllabus
Group Work
Assignments
W1
09/27 Monday Data Types, Lists Numbers
Strings
Lists 		Numbers
Strings
Lists 		Python Tutorial 3
09/28 Tuesday Discussion activity
09/29 Wednesday Control Flow Iteration
Control flow 		Iteration
Control flow
Python Tutorial 4.1-4.5
09/30 Thursday Discussion activity
10/01 Friday Collections Collections
Dictionaries 		Collections
Dictionaries
Python Tutorial 5
W2
10/04 Monday Functions Functions I
Functions II 		Functions I
Functions II
Python Tutorial 4.6-7
10/05 Tuesday Discussion activity
10/06 Wednesday More Functions Functions III
Exceptions 		Functions III
Exceptions 		Python Tutorial 8
10/07 Thursday Discussion activity
HW1 due
10/08 Friday Object-Oriented Programming OOP I
OOP II 		OOP I
OOP II 		Python Tutorial 9.1-9.4
W3
10/11 Monday Indigenous People's Day No lecture, no quiz FAQs: Native American and Indigenous Peoples
10/12 Tuesday Discussion activity
10/13 Wednesday Inheritance Inheritance I
Inheritance II 		Inheritance I
Inheritance II 		Python Tutorial 9.5-.9.6
10/14 Thursday Discussion activity
HW2 due
10/15 Friday Iteration Iterators I
Iterators II Generators 		Iterators I
Iterators II Generators 		Python Tutorial 9.8-9.10
W4
10/18 Monday Numerical Computation NumPy I
NumPy II
NumPy III 		NumPy I
NumPy II
NumPy III 		Data Types Review
Array Basics
Boolean Arrays
10/19 Tuesday Discussion activity
10/20 Wednesday More Numerical Computation NumPy IV
NumPy V 		NumPy IV
NumPy V 		Universal Functions
Aggregation
10/21 Thursday Discussion activity
HW3 due
10/22 Friday Modules and Tests Modules
Unit-Testing 		Modules
Unit-Testing 		__name__ == "__main__"?
Basic Example
(unittest docs)
W5
10/25 Monday Input/Output Local data
Online data 		Local data
Online data 		Python Tutorial 7.2
CSV docs
10/26 Tuesday Discussion activity
10/27 Wednesday Midterm Review
10/28 Thursday Discussion activity
HW4 due
10/29 Friday No Lecture
Midterm exam
W6
11/01 Monday Data Visualization Matplotlib I
Matplotlib II
Matplotlib III 		Matplotlib I
Matplotlib II
Matplotlib III 		Introduction
Simple line plots
Simple scatter plots
11/02 Tuesday Discussion activity
11/03 Wednesday Tabular Data I
Project assigned
 Pandas I
Pandas II
Pandas III 		Pandas I
Pandas II
Pandas III 		Pandas objects
Indexing
String operations
11/04 Thursday
Project activity
 No HW due this week!!
11/05 Friday Tabular Data II Pandas IV
Pandas V 		Pandas IV
Pandas V 		Aggregation and Grouping
W7
11/08 Monday Machine Learning I Fundamentals
Machine Learning by Hand
From Concepts to Code 		Fundamentals
Machine Learning by Hand
From Concepts to Code 		Scikit-Learn Intro
11/09 Tuesday
Project activity
11/10 Wednesday Machine Learning II Overfitting I
Overfitting II
Cross-Validation and Testing 		Overfitting I
Overfitting II
Cross-Validation and Testing 		Hyperparameters and Validation
11/11 Thursday Veteran's Day: No Discussion!
11/12 Friday Catch up day: no videos, no quiz
HW5 due
W8
11/15 Monday Machine Learning III Feature Selection
Clustering 		Feature Selection
Clustering 		Introduction to K-Means Clustering in Python
11/16 Tuesday
Project activity
11/17 Wednesday Machine Learning IV Digits Case Study
Bikeshare Case Study 		Digits Case Study
Bikeshare Case Study 		None.
11/18 Thursday
Project activity
11/19 Friday Algorithmic Bias
HW6 due
 Are We Automating Racism? (Glad You Asked)
Getting Specific About Algorithmic Bias (Rachel Thomas)
W9
11/22 Monday Natural Language Processing I The Term-Document Matrix
Topic Modeling 		The Term-Document Matrix
Topic Modeling 		Topic Modeling (basics)
Topic Modeling (limitations)
11/23 Tuesday Discussion activity
11/24 Wednesday Natural Language Processing II Sentiment Analysis I & II Sentiment Analysis I
Sentiment Analysis II 		None.
11/25 Thursday Thanksgiving -- get some rest
11/26 Friday Thanksgiving -- get some rest
W10
11/29 Monday Regular Expressions (optional content)
HW7 due
 Regex I
Regex II
Regex III
Regex IV 		Regex I
Regex II
Regex III
Regex IV 		RegexOne Tutorial
(through Lesson 15)
11/30 Tuesday Discussion activity
12/01 Wednesday Graphical Interfaces (optional content) Frames and Labels
User Input Interlude: Pickling
Adding ML 		Frames and Labels
User Input Frames and Labels
Adding ML 		Tkinter Tutorial
12/02 Thursday Discussion activity
12/03 Friday Exam review
Project due