| Topic |
Date |
Readings/Homework |
| Background and Intro to Python |
01/23/14 |
Chapter
1. Exercises 2-4 |
| Variables, expressions and statements | 01/27/14 |
Chapter 2. HW 1 |
| Quiz 1 |
01/30/14 |
|
| Class cancelled due to snow | 02/03/14 |
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| Strings, For loops | 02/06/14 |
Chapter 7 Iteration,
Chapter
8 Strings CodingBat: String GooglePython: String HW 2 ; Sample solution for replacing w with m. |
| If boolean logic | 02/10/14 |
CodingBat:If-Boolean-Logic
Function &
Indention Exercise: CodingBat Warmup-1 Q1-Q6 |
|
Class cancelled due to snow |
02/13/14 |
|
| Quiz 2 | 02/17/14 |
|
|
Lists |
02/20/14 |
Chapter 10 Lists, Excercise:
CodingBat List-1 Q1-Q6 HW 3, Sample Solution for count_evens(nums) |
| File and Keyboard Input | 02/24/14 |
Chapter 14 Files, dna file1, Keyboard Input Example |
| Quiz 3 | 02/27/14 |
|
| Lab (Write a script) | 03/03/14 |
Exercise1, Solution including ex1b.py, HW 4 |
| Lab
(for loop) |
03/06/14 |
Exercise: big_diff. Exercise2, Sample dna file, Solution |
| Midterm Review | 03/10/14 |
|
| Midterm Exam | 03/13/14 |
|
| Spring Break | 03/17/14 | |
| Spring Break | 03/20/14 | |
| Midterm Solution | 03/24/14 | |
| while loop | 03/27/14 | HW 5 |
| break/continue in loop | 03/31/14 |
Exercise: Guessing Game, Solution |
| Dictionary / DNA complements | 04/03/14 | Chapter 11 Dictionaries. HW6, Solution |
| Transcription and translation | 04/07/14 |
Codon to amino acid map |
| Quiz 4 | 04/10/14 | |
| Quiz 4 solution and Transcript and Translate Exercise solution | 04/14/14 |
Transcript and Translate
Exercise: Solution HW7 Solution |
| Commonly used list/string methods | 04/17/14 |
HW 8 For Input File http://web.njit.edu/~zhiwei/BNFO135/data1/Ng.txt , Sample Output: N=10, N=15 solution |
| Exercise for HW 8 | 04/21/14 | |
| Quiz 5 + Excercise: Ex1, Ex2 (Sample dna file) | 04/24/14 | |
| Review (1) String and Logic | 04/28/14 | |
| Review (2) List and Loop | 05/01/14 |
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| Review (3) Dictionary and Function | 05/05/14 |