Part I: A Tour of Python

In this first part of this second programming course, we take a tour of Python.

• Welcome to MCS 275
  • Programming in Python
  • Factorization in Primes
  • Exercises
• Extending Python
  • Timing Programs
  • Writing a C program
  • Call by Value and Call by Reference
  • Extending Python
  • Exercises
• Arrays and Matrices
  • The Sieve of Eratosthenes
  • Arrays in Python
  • Matrices
  • Exercises
• Object Oriented Programming
  • Evaluating Boolean Expressions
  • Inheritance
  • Exercises
• Graphical User Interfaces
  • Tkinter
  • Mixing Colors
  • Simulating a Bouncing Ball
  • Exercises
• Cluster Analysis
  • Random Clustered Data
  • Simple Turtle Graphics
  • Reading Data From File
  • The K-Means Algorithm
  • List Comprehensions
  • Data From The Web
  • Exercises
• Counting Words and Pattern Matching
  • Dictionaries
  • Pattern Matching
  • Regular Expressions
  • Exercises