COURSE OUTLINE - subject to changes :

L-1	Mon 27 Aug	welcome to mcs 260
L-2	Wed 29 Aug	first steps with Python
L-3	Fri 31 Aug	computer architecture
	Mon  3 Sep	Labor Day - no classes
L-4	Wed  5 Sep	numbers, variables, and assignments
L-5	Fri  7 Sep	strings, lists, and tuples
L-6	Mon 10 Sep	hash tables and dictionaries
L-7	Wed 12 Sep	input and output formats

Project one due by 1PM, Friday 14 September

L-8	Fri 14 Sep	control structures
L-9	Mon 17 Sep	logic gates and intrinsic operations
L-10	Wed 19 Sep	latches, stacks and queues
L-11	Fri 21 Sep	adders and loops
L-12	Mon 24 Sep	designing and verifying loops
L-13	Wed 26 Sep	top down design of programs

Project two due by 1PM, Friday 28 September

L-14	Fri 28 Sep	arguments of functions
L-15	Mon  1 Oct	lambda forms
L-16	Wed  3 Oct	review for first midterm with answers
L-17	Fri  5 Oct	first midterm exam
L-18	Mon  8 Oct	bottom up design of programs
L-19	Wed 10 Oct	modules in Python
L-20	Fri 12 Oct	modules and packages
L-21	Mon 15 Oct	files: organization and use
L-22	Wed 17 Oct	methods of file objects
L-23	Fri 19 Oct	directory methods
L-24	Mon 22 Oct	object-oriented programming

Project three due by 1PM, Monday 22 October

L-25	Wed 24 Oct	classes and objects
L-26	Fri 26 Oct	inheritance and wrapping
L-27	Mon 29 Oct	verification techniques
L-28	Wed 31 Oct	exception handling
L-29	Fri  2 Nov	complexity analysis
L-30	Mon  5 Nov	graphical user interfaces

Project four due by 1PM, Wednesday 7 November

L-31	Wed  7 Nov	GUI programming with Tkinter
L-32	Fri  9 Nov	creating a GUI application
L-33	Mon 12 Nov	review for second midterm
L-34	Wed 14 Nov	internet basics
L-35	Fri 16 Nov	second midterm exam
L-36	Mon 19 Nov	introduction to CGI
L-37	Wed 21 Nov	databases
	Fri 23 Nov	Thanksgiving holiday - no classes
L-38	Mon 26 Nov	computer networks
L-39	Wed 28 Nov	multithreaded programming
L-40	Fri 30 Nov	web servers
L-41	Mon  3 Dec	review of the first 15 lectures

Project five due by 1PM, Wednesday 5 December

L-42	Wed  5 Dec	review of lectures 18 to 32
L-43	Fri  7 Dec	review of lectures 35 to 40

Monday 10 December, 1:00PM-3:00PM : Final exam -- room to be announced.