Syllabus

Technical Course Syllabus

T3

• Tue 6 April Jumping Jpegs with JQuery
• 13 April -- (2nd years) Tutorials (Viral Conference taking place)

... Django introduction classes ...

• Tue 1 Jun
• PS1 (8 Jun)
• PS2 (15 Jun)
• PS3 (22 Jun)

T2

• Tue 12 Jan
• Mon 18 Jan Epub hacking Day 1
• Tue 19 Jan Feed Books (Epub hacking continues)
• Tue 26 Jan DIY Feeds with html5lib

...

• Tue 16 Feb -- Technical Assignment 1
• Wed 17 Feb Epub hacking Day 2
• Tue 23 Feb
• Wed 24 Feb Epub hacking Day 3
• Tue 2 March
• 9 March - Technical Assignment 2 due
• 16 March - Technical Assignment 3 due

Syllabus t2notes

Topics: Functions & recursion, Lists, Dictionaries ThinkPython chapters: 5, 6, 10, 11

Trimester 1

• Tue 29 Sep: Command-line adventure / Image Sequence
• Tue 06 Oct: Audio Loops & "Cat"-ups
• Tue 13 Oct: Flexible loops: Variables
• 19-23 October Fall Break
• Tue 27 Oct: Flexible loops & Variables: Take 2
  

 First technical assignment due

• Tue 03 Nov: Live Loops with PyGame
• Tue 10 Nov: Getting Outside the Box
• Tue 17 Nov: IF-THEN and Some ways to smooth noisy data
  
• Tue 24 Nov: Sliding data with Sliders

 Second technical assignment due (PyGame)

• Tue 01 Dec: Recreating the DIMI-O
• Tue 08 Dec: Wrapping Up
• Tue 15 Dec: No Meeting, third technical assignment due (Shell+PyGame)

Topics: Programming 101, Variables & Loops, Control flow, Integers, Floats, ThinkPython chapters: 1, 2, 5 (minus functions & recursion), 7, 8

Requests for other Technical Topics

• Understanding Binary
• Scraping
• Embedded scripting in Scribus

T3

(still in the future) Topics: Classes, Data Modelling ThinkPython chapters: ...