Note: dates and assignments more than a week out may be adjusted as the semester goes on. Please consider this page to be a living document subject to changes througout the semester. 

Fall 2025

Week

Date

Subject

Assignments -- details on Canvas

1

--

W Aug 20

F Aug 22

 

Overview and syllabus

Data Types , Set up for Python (instructions)

no assignments

2

M Aug 25

W Aug 27

F Aug 29

Turtle Graphics

Turtle Graphics Events 

Modules 

Lab 1

3

M Sep 1

W Sep 3

F Sep 5

Labor Day - No Class!

Functions 

Selection 

Program 1

 

4

M Sep 8

W Sep 10

F Sep 12

Strings 

Iteration

Review

Lab 2

5

M Sep 15

W Sep 17

F Sep 19

Recursion, Review 

Exam 1 (in class with pencil)

Discussion

Lab 3

 

6

M Sep 22

W Sep 24

F Sep 26

Lists

Lists 

Lists 

Lab 4, Program 2

7

M Sep 29

W Oct 1

F Oct 3

Files

Files 

Files

Lab 5

8

M Oct 6

W Oct 8

F Oct 10

Dictionaries 

Dictionaries 

Dictionaries

Lab 6, Program 3

9

M Oct 13

W Oct 15

F Oct 17

Object Oriented Basics 

Object Oriented Basics 

Object Oriented Basics
Lab 7

10

M Oct 20

W Oct 22

F Oct 24

More Object Orientation 

More Object Orientation 

Review

Lab 8, Program 4

 

11

M Oct 27

W Oct 29

F Oct 31

 Exam 2 (in class with pencil)

Practicum Discussion

NumPy Module 

Lab 9
12

M Nov 3

W Nov 5

F Nov 7

NumPy Module

NumPy Module 

matplotlib Module

Lab 10, Program 5

 

13

M Nov 10

W Nov 12

F Nov 14

matplotlib Module

matplotlib Module 

pandas Module 

(No lab; Veteran's Day)

14

M Nov 17

W Nov 19

F Nov 21

pandas Module

pandas Module 

scikit-learn Module 

Lab 11

 

 

15

M Nov 24

W Nov 26

F Nov 28

Fall Break - No Class!

Fall Break - No Class!

Fall Break - No Class!
 

16

M Dec 1

W Dec 3

F Dec 5

Review Data Types

Review OOP (Python vs. C vs. Java)

Review Data Science Modules

 

17

M Dec 8

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam (Exam 3)

8:00 am - 9:50 am
BARNARD 103

 

Professor

Daniel DeFrance: Office hours, Bio, and contact Information are available from the Faculty Directory.

Teaching Assistants

TAs are responsible for live assistance during lab, holding office hours in the Student Success Center, answering emails, and grading assignments. 

Section   TA From  To    Email
1   First Last 11:00 AM 11:50 AM   name@email.com
2   First Last Noon 1:00 PM   name@email.com
3   First Last 1:10 PM 2:00 PM   name@email.com
4   First Last 2:10 PM 3:00 PM   name@email.com
5   First Last 3:10 PM 4:00 PM   name@email.com
6   First Last 4:10 PM 5:00 PM   name@email.com
8   First Last 6:10 PM 7:00 PM   name@email.com

 

Lectures and Textbook

Lectures take place on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9:00 - 9:50 am in Barnard Hall Room 103. It's recommended you bring your laptop to follow along with in-class coding examples. 

The main text we will use for this course free and online. 

The table below lists out the schedule with links to lecture topics and what textbook sections to read for which days.

Labs

Labs meet in Roberts Hall Room 111 on Tuesdays.  The time of your meeting will depend on the section in which you are enrolled. To find out about more, you can use the Schedule of Classes to filter for CSCI 127, which provides a list of all the sections, and at what the times they meet. It should take you an hour or two if you are well prepared (labs generally open at  8 pm on Monday evening so you can get a sneak preview), but you will have until midnight on Tuesday to submit your work to D2L for grading.

A Teaching Assistant (TA) will be in the room to answer questions, provide guidence, and grade the assigments. Each section will have a different TA, so get to know yours early, and take note of their office hours to visit them outside of lab time.

Programs

Programs are take-home assignments that are meant to take a bit more effort than the labs. Subsequently there are fewer of them you will have more time to finish. Programs are generally assigned every other week, and opening Monday morning, and closing Sunday night. It is strongly recommended you make every effort to finish the programs before the deadline, early in the week if possible. A tip: zeros are a lot worse than a plain old bad grade. If you get your program together enough that you think it would be worth some points, go ahead and submit it early with D2L -- you can always improve it and resubmit right up until the deadline.

Your TA will be familiar with the program and will grading it when your are finished, so they're a great resource to ask for help, but during lab times they will be focused on the lab. To get help with the programs, it's better visit the Student Success Center in Barnard Hall Room 259. Your TA will hold office hours there, but really anyone working there at the time you drop in should be able to sit down with you and help you with your program, even if they are a TA for a completely different class.

Exams

There are three exams over the course of the semester, including the final exam during finals week. The exams take place in the NAH class room during regular class hours (except for the final exam, which has its own schedule at the end of the semester.) These exams are all weighted evenly -- the final exam is not worth any more points than the other two.

Grading

Note: Practicums must be taken at the regularly scheduled time at the designated place and will not be given early or late.

  • Weekly Labs - 40% (evenly weighted)
  • Programs - 30% (evenly weighted)
  • Practicums - 30 % (evenly weighted)

To pass the course, you must average at least 50% on the exams. Assuming that this is the case, grades will be determined (after any curving takes place) based on your class average as follows:

  • 93+: A
  • 90+: A-
  • 87+: B+
  • 83+: B
  • 80+: B-
  • 77+: C+
  • 73+: C
  • 70+: C-
  • 67+: D+
  • 63: D
  • 60: D-