Date	Topic	Reading	Items due
week 1 (Tue: Sep 09)	Introduction to Computer Science   Lecture 1 slide   Lab 0 (Windows user)   Lab 0 (Mac user)	Reading: A Byte of Python (Why Python & its advantage)
week 1 (Thu: Sep 11)	Displaying text   Assignment statements   Variables, expression   Lecture 2 slide   Lab 1 (released on Sep 11)	Reading: Chapter 2: Python for Everyone – Variables, expressions, and statements
week 2 (Tue: Sep 16)	Expression   Data Types   Input   Lecture 3 slide	Reading: Python Values and Types	Lab 1 (due by Sep 16th)
week 2 (Thu: Sep 18)	Division Operator   Conditional Statements (if statement)   Conditional Statements (if-else statement)   Conditional Statements (Nested if statement)   Lecture 4 slide   Lab 2 (released on Sep 18)	Reading: Conditionals (If Statments)
week 3 (Tue: Sep 23)	Complex Boolean Expressions   Conditional Statements (if-elif-else statement)   Coding Exercises on Conditional Statements   Lecture 5 slide		Lab 2 (due by Sep 23rd)
week 3 (Thu: Sep 25)	More Boolean Expressions   While Loop   Lecture 6 slide   boolean_expression_exercise.py   Lab 3 (released on Sep 25)	Reading: "The While Statement” in Control Flow section
week 3 (Sun: Sep 28)	More on While Loop (accumulator)   Content Quiz#1 (for section#1)   Replacement lecture for October 7th   Lecture 7 slide	Reading:	Content Quiz#1 (due by Sep 28th)
week 4 (Tue: Sep 30)	While Loops and Print Formatting   Lecture 8 slide	Reading: Printing
week 4 (Thu: Oct 02)	Mid-Autumn Festival/National Holiday break: October 1–8, 2025	Reading:	Lab 3 (due by October 4th)
week 5 (Tue: Oct 07)	Mid-Autumn Festival/National Holiday break: October 1–8, 2025	Reading:
week 5 (Fri: Oct 10)	For Loops   Lecture 9 slide   Lab 4 (released on Oct 11th)	Reading: The For Loop
week 6 (Tue: Oct 14)	Nested For Loops   Introduction to Sequence (String, List, Tuple)   Sequence: String   String Indexing   Lecture 10 slide	Reading:
week 6 (Thu: Oct 16)	Sequence: List   List Indexing and Updating   Content Quiz#2   Lecture 11 slide   Assignment 1 (released on Oct 20th)	Reading: Introduction to List	Content Quiz#2 (due by Oct 16th)   Lab 4 (due by Oct 16th)
week 7 (Tue: Oct 21)	Sequence: Functions on List   Sequence: List Methods   Sequence: List Slicing   Sequence: Tuple   Lecture 12 slide   Lab 5 (released on Oct 21st)	Reading: Lists (Brian Heinold's Chapter#7)
week 7 (Thu: Oct 23)	Sequence: List Slicing   Sequence: Tuple   Sequence: Nested List (List of Lists)   Sequence: String Methods   Lecture 13 slide	Reading:	Lab 5 (due by Oct 25th)
week 8 (Tue: Oct 28)	Sequence: String Methods   Introduction to Functions   Lecture 14 slide	Reading: Functions
week 8 (Thu: Oct 30)	Function Parameters and Arguments   Value Returning Functions   Lecture 15 slide   Lab6 (released)	Reading:	Assignment 1 (due by Oct 31st)
week 9 (Tue: Nov 04)	Local and Global Variables   Content Quiz#3   Lecture 16 slide   Lab7 (released)	Reading:	Lab 6 (due by Nov 3rd)   Content Quiz#3 (due by Nov 4th)
week 9 (Thu: Nov 06)	Dictionary   Dictionary (add, update, and remove operations)   Iterating through a dictionary   Lecture 17 slide	Reading: Chapter Dictionary	Lab 7 (due by Nov 9th)
week 10 (Thu: Nov 13)	Files   File I/O (read operations)   Lecture 18 slides   Codes + Files   Lab 8 (released on Nov 13th)	Reading:
week 11 (Thu: Nov 20)	File I/O (write and append operations)   Introduction to Class and Object   Content Quiz#4   Lecture 19 slides (File Output)   Lecture 20 slides (Class and Object)	Reading:	Lab 8 (due by Nov 18th)   Content Quiz#4 (due by Nov 20th)
week 12 (Thu: Nov 27)	Class Definition and Object Intantiation   Accessing Object Attributes and Methods   Lecture 21 slide   Assignment 2 (released on Nov 25th)	Reading:
week 13 (Thu: Dec 04)	Class/Object: Scope and Visibility   Class/Object: Inheritance   Graphics   Lecture 22 slides (Scope and Visibility)   Lecture 23 slides (Graphics)	Reading: Graphics from Zelle's Book   Download: graphics.py	Assignment 2 (due by Dec 5th)
week 14 (Thu: Dec 11)	Final Project Discussion   Graphics and Animation   Lecture 24 slides	Reading:
week 15 (Thu: Dec 18)	Graphical User Interface (GUI)   Errors, Exceptions and try-except blocks   Course Evaluation   Lecture 25 slides	Reading:	Final project proposal (Lab 9) (due by Dec 16th, 2025)   Final Project (due by January 7th, 2026)