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Py2024febr

2023/24/2 (February 2024)

Place and Time of Class:

• Thursday 8h-10h, IK-105

Links:

• course material (slides, etc.)
• exercises (try to solve as many as possible)
• Installing Python 3 under Windows 10 (by me)
• Introduction to Linux (a video series by me)
• ASCII Chart, (PNG)

News

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• [2024.01.31.] Course home page (this page) is partially updated.

About the Course

We will get acquainted with the Python programming language (Python 3). The pre-requisite of the course is the "High Level Programming Languages 1", so I suppose everyone is familiar with the basic concepts of programming. In the lab we will use Linux, more precisely Ubuntu GNU/Linux. If you want, you can bring your own laptop. All we need is a text editor (e.g. GEdit, vim, VS Code, etc.). It's up to you which one you use. In your text editor you should set that TAB is automatically changed to 4 spaces. In GEdit you can do that like this: Edit → Preferences, then select the Editor tab. The value of Tab Width should be 4, and select Insert spaces instead of tabs. You can do this setting in every modern text editor.

Topics of the Labs / Slides

1) 2023.09.06. [yyyy.mm.dd.]

• introduction, history of Python, characteristics of the language
• using the Unix shell, basic Unix commands
• using the interactive shell
• writing and running simple Python scripts

Current slide: python-01.pdf
Homework:

• watch my Introduction to Linux video series since we'll work under Linux

Course Mark

At the end of the semester you will get a practical course mark. For this, you will have to attend the labs. Max. 3 absences are tolerated. If you are absent more than 3 times, you will automatically fail the course.

About being late: if you are a few minutes late, I can tolerate that. If you are late more than 10 minutes, then it'll be considered as a "half absence". If you do this twice, that will be registered as 1 absence.

There will be two classroom tests. The first one is on paper (?), while the second one is on computer. Your mark will be the average of the marks you get on the tests. If this mark is a real number (e.g. 3.5, 4.5, etc.), then I will take into consideration your lab work and homeworks. If someone solves less than 75% of the homeworks, then (s)he will get a worse mark than the average of the two tests.

If someone is not satisfied with his/her mark, (s)he will have the possibility to improve (or decline) the final mark in the last week of the semester. In this case, the final mark can be max. one mark better (or worse). The student will have to solve some programming exercises on a computer, and (s)he will have to know the concepts related to the Python programming language. If someone fails both classroom tests, (s)he cannot improve the final mark.

Classroom Tests / Exam

1st test

• ??? ?, 2024

2nd test

• ??? ?, 2024 (at computer)

possibility to improve (or decline) the final mark

• ??? ?, 2024

Bibliography

• Guido van Rossum: Python Tutorial (https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html, PDF), 2024 ◂
• Wesley J. Chun: Core Python Programming (2nd Edition), 2009
• Doug Hellmann: The Python Standard Library by Example (Developer's Library), 2011
• Doug Hellmann: Python Module of the Week (http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/contents.html)
• Zed A. Shaw: Learn Python The Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/), 2011
• Allen B. Downey: Think Python (How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/), O'Reilly, 2012
• Mark Summerfield: Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (1. fejezet), 2007
• Mark Pilgrim: Dive Into Python 3 (http://www.diveintopython3.net/), 2009