Comp 150 - Introduction To Computing, Fall 2009

Dr. Harrington

This page is the center of public information added throughout the course. Initially, please see the Course Syllabus, about course content, administration, and requirements.

Course Syllabus Quick access to links more completely described in the syllabus are below:

Dr. Harrington's contact information, office hours
Schedule and Assignments:
Instructions for submitting assignments to blackboard.luc.edu.
Pair Programming: How to Pair Program, Administration
Class notes
Hands-on Python Tutorials Mac users see extra Mac notes.
Local Zelle Graphics Reference
Examples:
Private Course Materials (Solutions, book data, .... Instructions in class and in Blackboard Course announcements for access)

Computer Science Tutoring Schedule

Http://python.org Home site for the Python language, where you can find out more and download the latest version: for Fall 09 get Python 3.1.

Other Free Online References for Python. All except the official Python Tutorial are intended for people with no programming background. The others, however, tend to be for Python 2.X, which has slightly different syntax for reading from the keyboard (raw_input), printing (a statement, not a function), and they use an old form of division where / can mean either the // or / of Python 3.1, depending on the types involved.

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist Covers pretty much the same basics as the Hands-on Python Tutorials, but in online book form, in a somewhat different order with a different simple graphics library.
Software Carpentry is a Python-centered introduction to many subjects, many beyond this course but not far off. Sections that do largely correspond to the Python tutorials are the following. They list more methods than the Hands-on Python Tutorials, but with rather limited examples.

Official Python Tutorial for version 3.1 covers a lot. It moves fast for someone with no programming background. Idle links to this.
Wikibooks Non-programmer Tutorial for Python Another introduction to Python basics in different words. No graphics, few major examples, lots of basic syntax.
Programming Crash Course Large overlap with the Hands-on Python Tutorials, shorter, no graphics.

Links supporting the optional section on setting up your own public web server

Your Own Public Web Site (local introduction)
Download: SSH Secure Shell for Windows One way you can copy work from your personal Linux directories to an at-home Windows machine. Your files are accessible from the server xenon.cs.luc.edu. The IS Windows labs uses other free products Filezilla client and PuTTY.