Date	Topic	Reading	Items due
week 1 (Wed: Sep 10)	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 (Fri: 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 (Wed: Sep 17)	Expression   Data Types   Input   Lecture 3 slide	Reading: Python Values and Types	Lab 1 (due by Sep 17th)
week 2 (Fri: Sep 19)	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 (Wed: Sep 24)	Complex Boolean Expressions   Conditional Statements (if-elif-else statement)   Coding Exercises on Conditional Statements   Lecture 5 slide		Lab 2 (due by Sep 24th)
week 3 (Fri: Sep 26)	More Boolean Expressions   While Loop   Lecture 6 slide   boolean_expression_exercise.py   Lab 3 (released on Sep 26)	Reading: "The While Statement” in Control Flow section
week 4 (Wed: Oct 01)	Mid-Autumn Festival/National Holiday break: October 1–8, 2025	Reading:
week 4 (Fri: Oct 03)	Mid-Autumn Festival/National Holiday break: October 1–8, 2025	Reading:	Lab 3 (due by October 4th)
week 5 (Wed: Oct 08)	Mid-Autumn Festival/National Holiday break: October 1–8, 2025	Reading:
week 5 (Fri: Oct 10)	More on While Loop (accumulator)   Content Quiz#1 (for section#3)   Lecture 7 slide   Lab 4 (released on Oct 11th)	Reading:	Content Quiz#1 (due by Oct 10th)
week 5 (Sat: Oct 11)	While Loops and Print Formatting   Lecture 8 slide   Lab 4 (released on Oct 11th)   Replacement lecture for October 8, 2025	Reading: Printing
week 6 (Wed: Oct 15)	For Loops   Lecture 9 slide	Reading: The For Loop
week 6 (Fri: Oct 17)	Nested For Loops   Introduction to Sequence (String, List, Tuple)   Sequence: String   String Indexing   Content Quiz 2   Lecture 10 slide   Assignment 1 (released on Oct 20th)	Reading:	Content Quiz 2 (due by Oct 17th)   Lab 4 (due by Oct 16th)
week 7 (Wed: Oct 22)	Sequence: List   Sequence: List Indexing   Sequence: List Updating   Sequence: Functions on List   Sequence: List Methods   Lecture 12 slide   Lab 5 (released on Oct 21st)	Reading: Introduction to List   Reading: Lists (Brian Heinold's Chapter#7)
week 7 (Fri: Oct 24)	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 (Wed: Oct 29)	Sequence: String Methods   Introduction to Functions   Lecture 14 slide	Reading: Functions
week 8 (Fri: Oct 31)	Function Parameters and Arguments   Value Returning Functions   Lecture 15 slide   Lab6 (released)	Reading:	Assignment 1 (due by Oct 31st)
week 9 (Wed: Nov 05)	Local and Global Variables   Content Quiz 3   Lecture 16 slide   Lab7 (released)	Reading:	Lab 6 (due by Nov 03)   Content Quiz 3 (due by Nov 04)
week 9 (Fri: Nov 07)	Dictionary   Dictionary (add, update, and remove operations)   Iterating through a dictionary   Lecture 17 slide	Reading:	Lab 7 (due by Nov 09)
week 10 (Fri: Nov 14)	Files   File I/O (read operations)   Lecture 18 slides   Codes + Files   Lab 8 (released on Nov 13th)	Reading:
week 11 (Fri: Nov 21)	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)
week 12 (Fri: Nov 28)	Class Definition and Object Intantiation   Accessing Object Attributes and Methods   Lecture 21 slide   Assignment 2 (released on Nov 25th)	Reading:
week 13 (Fri: Dec 05)	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 Nov 5th)
week 14 (Fri: Dec 12)	Final Project Discussion   Graphics and Animation   Lecture 24 slides	Reading:
week 15 (Fri: Dec 19)	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)