Lectures & Assigments

 Lesson Topics

• Syllabus, objectives, and policies.
• The class website
• Blackboard
• Basic computer skills
• Get an OpenLab account
• Create your portfolio
• What is computer engineering technology?

• Lecture 1 Slides

LAB:

1- Complete the following tutorials:

• Set up and OpenLab portofolio
• Set your portfolio in OpenLab
• Site on the OpenLab

2- Submit the URL of your portfolio HERE

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read the lesson: Introduction to Computer Systems

• What is a computer?
• Hardware
• Software
• Bits and Bytes
• Data (storing and transmitting)
• Programming Languages
• Computer Networks

• Intro to Computer Systems

LAB:

• Complete the remaining OpenLab tutorials in the Help page
• Create a tab in your portfolio and name it EMT 1111 Labs
• Create a Lab Report Example page similar to this one and call it Lab 0.

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Think Python: Chapter 1, Chapter 2
• Complete Quiz 1 on Blackboard

• What is a program?
• Algorithms
• The Programming Process
• Variables
• Statements and Expressions
• Data types
• Operators

• Lecture 3 – Intro to Python

• Variables, statements, and expressions

LAB:

• Lab 1
• Post in your OpenLab portfolio: lab description, source code, screenshots
• Due on Feb 25, 2013

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Think Python: Chapter 5, Chapter 7
• Complete Quiz 2 on Blackboard

• Boolean Logic
• Boolean expressions
• Logical operators
• If and if/else statements
• Loops

• Lecture 4 – Python-Flow of Control

LAB:

• Lab2
• Post in your OpenLab portfolio: lab description, source code, screenshots
• Due on March 11, 2013

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Think Python: Chapter 3, Chapter 6
• Complete Quiz 3 on Blackboard

• Functions
• Built in functions
• User defined functions
• Abstraction.
• Reusability.
• Parameters and arguments.
• Returning values.
• Variables Scope

• Lecture 5 – Python Functions

LAB:

• Lab3
• Post in your OpenLab portfolio: lab description, source code, screenshots
• Due on March 18, 2013

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Think Python: Chapter 8, Chapter 10
• Complete Quiz 4 on Blackboard

• A string is a sequence
• Traversing strings
• String slices
• A list is a sequence
• Traversing a list
• List operations
• Lists slices

• Lecture 6 – Python Strings and Lists

LAB:

• Lab4
• Post in your OpenLab portfolio: lab description, source code, screenshots
• Due on March 22, 2013

STUDY FOR MIDTERM EXAM

 MIDTERM EXAM

• App Inventor Setup
• HelloPurr + Vibrate
• AppInventor CH14 (App Architecture)
• Complete Quiz 5 on Blackboard
  

• App Inventor Setup
• What is an App?
• What is event driven programming?
• Components and properties
• Events and event handlers
• Calling built-in function blocks
• Reference Documentation site

• Lecture 7 – Intro to AppInventor

LAB:

1. Finish Lab 5: HelloPurr + Vibrate and post it into your OpenLab portfolio.
2. Include a short description of the app, a picture of the main screen, and a picture of the blocks diagram.

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• PaintPot
• AppInventor CH16 (Variables)
• Complete Quiz 6 on Blackboard

• Variables
• Parameters
• Operators
• Drawing Canvases
• Working with images and sound
• Intro to algorithms

• Lecture 8 – AppInventor

LAB:

• Do Lab 6: PaintPot and post it in your OpenLab portfolio

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• AppInventor CH15 (Software Engineering and Debugging)
• AppInventor CH17 (Creating Animated Apps)
• Complete Quiz 7 on Blackboard

• Software engineering principles
• Comments and documentation
• Timer Events
• Canvases and Image Sprites
• Moving Objects over Time
• Drag and Touch Events
• Boolean expressions
• Relational operators
• If and If/else statement

• Lecture 9 – AppInventor

LAB:

• Do Lab 7: MoleMash and post it in your OpenLab portfolio

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• AppInventor CH18 (Conditional Blocks)
• AppInventor CH 19 (Programming Lists)
• AppInventor CH20 (Repeating Blocks)
• AppInventor CH22 (Working with Databases)
• Complete Quiz 8 on Blackboard

• Loops
• While, For Each, For Range
• Databases
• TinyDB
• TinyWebDB
• Procedures and functions
• Lists of data
• Iterating a list with an index
• Lists of lists

• Lecture 10 – AppInventor

LAB:

• Do Lab 8: QuizMe and post it in your OpenLab portfolio

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Complete Quiz 9 on Blackboard

• Work on your project
• Work on your presentation

• Finish your project
• Finish your presentation
• Finish quizzes
• Finish labs

• Finish your project
• Project presentation
• Project submission
• Final Exam review

• Review for Final Exam
• Project Presentations

LAB:

• Finish your project
• Submit your project