CPSC 231 (Winter 2017)

opening hours (T04)

tutorial times

Tuesday 16:00 - 16:50 [MS 176]

Thursday 16:00 - 16:50 [MS 176]

outside-of-class help

CT: Friday 11:00 - 12:00 [CT desk, starting Jan 27]

contact: kdang[at]ucalgary.ca

"office hours": by appointment [send me an email]

tutorial material

• March 28/30
  • Game engine box examples
• March 21/23
  • In-class example of taking a text file and printing out a "ransom" version -- this will be a bit like A3 but on a smaller scale. Download starting file here.
  • Update: sample solution to the "ransom" text problem.
  • A3 help
• March 14/16
  • Midterm 2 review (W2013 and W2014, excl. 11 and 12)
  • Good luck!
• March 9
  • Exercise with functions and command-line arguments
  • Here is a rough (not necessarily all-inclusive or beautiful) script which may be helpful for understanding sys.argv
• March 7
  • Geometric mean revisited - using functions
  • Sample code here
• March 2
  • Assignment 2 work period
  • Falling letters exercise (if you're not working on A2)
• February 28
  • Review of 2D list access (using q. 13-16 from this midterm) and Assignment 2 help
• February 16
  • Exercise with creating a "stoplight" using curses. Sample solution here.
• February 14
  • Revisit geometric mean with lists and sentinels. Sample data file here.
  • 2D lists
• February 9
  • Midterm review: Will finish midterm from previous tutorial and try to cover some of this one.
• February 7
  • Midterm review: Qs 1-26 and 29-37 from this midterm were covered
• February 2
  • Recreate a program which draws a multi-pointed star. (email me if you would like to see the sample solution)
• January 31
  • Write a program to read in data and calculate the geometric mean. Sample solution.
  • Sample data
  • Sample empty data
• January 26
  • Recreate this output using turtle (hint: only ~5 lines of code required!)
• January 24
  • Summary notes
  • Slides (draft)
• January 19
  • In-class exercise: draw the letters "CPSC" using turtle
    • No turtle.write("CPSC")! (that's too easy =P)
    • You can use straight line segments -- if you want an extra challenge, try making curved lines (e.g. using turtle.circle())
  • Something to think about: How could you reuse your code? (e.g. how to use your code from the first C for the second C)
• January 17
  • Summary notes
  • Slides
  • Covers basic housekeeping, a bit of UNIX, Python3 and Turtle

useful/related links

• Course webpage: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/231/
• Turtle: https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html