Introduction to Python
(Fall 2019)

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Lecture Material


Office Hours


Monday - Thursday: 10am-9pm
Friday 10am-5pm
Room: 38-370

This Week's Problem Set


Problem Set 0: Warm Up.
Due: Sep 06 at 11:59PM

Recitation Schedule


Room: 37-212
Fridays at: 10am, 11am, 1pm

Calendar and Materials 6.0001 - Fall 2019

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9/3: Registration day
9/4: Lecture 1:
Admin & overview, What is computation, Intro to programming languages and Python, types (int, float, str), objects, branching, indentation
L1 FE out
PS 0 out
9/5
9/6:




PS 0 due

PS 1 out
9/9: Lecture 2:
Iteration (while loops, basic for loops with range), guess and check algorithms, Strings (insertion, deletion).
L2 FE out
L1 FE due
9/10
9/11: Lecture 3:

Binary numbers, floats, approximate solutions, bisection methods

L3 FE out
L2 FE due
9/12





PS 2 out
9/13

(6.0001 add date)



PS 1 due at 5pm
9/16: Lecture 4:
Decomposition, abstraction, functions, scope, recursion,


L4 FE out
L3 FE due
PS1 checkoffs start
9/17
9/18: Lecture 5:
Tuples, lists, mutability, for loops over sequences

Microquiz 1
L5 FE out
L4 FE due
9/19:





PS 3 out
9/20
Holiday, no classes!



PS 2 due at 5pm
9/23: Lecture 6
Dictionaries, debugging

L6 FE out
L5 FE due
PS2 checkoffs start
9/24
9/25: Lecture 7
Data abstraction, start classes, subtyping, substitution rule

Microquiz 2

L6 FE due
PS 1 checkoff due at 9pm
9/26:





PS 4 out
9/27





PS 3 due at 5pm
9/30: Lecture 8
Extended example using classes, class attributes. Introduce algorithm analysis

L8 FE out
No L7 FE
PS3 checkoffs start
10/1
10/2: Lecture 9
Analysis of algorithms, implementing lists using indirection

Microquiz 3
No L9 FE
L8 FE due

PS 2 checkoff due at 9pm
10/3:





PS 5 out
10/4:
6.0001 drop deadline




PS 4 due at 5pm
10/7: Lecture 10
Binary search, selection sort, merge sort, amortized analysis

L10 FE out
No L9 FE
PS4 checkoffs start
10/8
10/9: Lecture 11
Quiz Review
Review Materials (topics, instructions, MITx exam answers)

L10 FE due

PS 3 checkoff due at 9pm
No L11 FE
10/10:





10/11:





PS 5 due at 5pm
10/14: No Lecture
Holiday




10/15
10/16:
6.0001 Final Exam




PS 4 checkoff due at 9pm
10/17:





10/18:





PS 5 checkoff due at 5pm