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  • Syllabus for CSC140 Foundations of Computer Science
  • Python
  • Introduction to Python Programming (udacity.com)
  • Python Tutorial (w3schools.com)
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  • The Story of Python, by Its Creator, Guido van Rossum
  • Lesson 00 (Monday, February 10, 2020) (PDF)
  • Assignment 00
  • How to Write Beautiful Python Code With PEP 8
  • Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language
  • Lesson 01 (Wednesday, February 12, 2020) (PDF)
  • Lesson 02 (Thursday, February 13, 2020) (PDF)
  • Python Documentation: Turtle Graphics
  • Famous Curves Index
  • A chart that shows colors and the names of colors.
  • Margaret Hamilton, NASA's First Software Engineer (4:36 minute video)
  • Don Eyles: Space Hacker (3:33 minute video)
  • The Real Story Behind the Apollo 11 Computer Error | WSJ (7:17 minute video)
  • Apollo 13 (1995) - Failure Is Not an Option (2:09 minute video)
  • NASA Oral History: John W. Aaron Interviewed by Kevin M. Rusnak
  • How Curiosity, Luck, and the Flip of a Switch Saved the Moon Program
  • Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician | Biography (2:14 minute video)
  • "Learning from Crises", by David Alan Grier (IEEE Computer Society)
  • Graded Exercise 0 (Friday, February 14, 2020) (PDF)
  • Just for fun: "Mr. Blue Sky," performed by Pomplamoose
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  • Lesson 04 (Monday, February 17, 2020) (PDF)
  • Code for exercise on Wednesday, February 19, 2020
  • Reading and writing assignment (due Friday, February 21, 2020)
  • Just for fun: 2 songs
  • Code and questions for exercise on Thursday, February 20, 2020
  • Graded Exercise 1: Functions that call functions
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  • Code for exercises on Tuesday, February 25, 2020
  • Sorting Algorithms (PDF)
  • Merge sort and Weight class (PDF)
  • Practice for Graded Exercise 2 (PDF)
  • Practice designing a class (PDF)
  • Examples shared on Thursday, February 27, 2020
  • "Robert Noyce and His Congregation", by Tom Wolfe
  • "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering," by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
  • Just for fun: pianist, singer, and pilot from Korea
  • Graded Exercise 2 (PDF)
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  • Fractals
  • Just for fun: the Mona Lisa Twins sing the Beatles' "Drive My Car"
  • Questions about readings (PDF)
  • Code for Graded Exercise 3
  • Graded Exercise 3 with solutions (PDF)
  1. CSC140-6 2019
  2. Week 1
  3. "Learning from Crises", by David Alan Grier (IEEE Computer Society)

"Learning from Crises", by David Alan Grier (IEEE Computer Society)

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