Date	Topic	Reading	Items due
week 1 (Tue: 01/24)	Introduction to Computer Science   Lecture 1 slide   Lab 1		Lab 1 (released on 01/25)
week 1 (Thu: 01/26)	Variables, expression, and statements   Lecture 2 slide	Reading: Chapter 1, Chapter 2
week 2 (Tue: 01/31)	Functions (part 1)   Lecture 3 slide	Reading: Chapter 3
week 2 (Thu: 02/02)	Functions (part 2)   Lecture 4 slide   Lab 2	Reading: Chapter 3	Lab 1 (due by 02/02)
week 3 (Tue: 02/07)	Import a module   Variable scope resolution (local vs global)   Content quiz 1 review   Lecture 5 slide		Lab 2 (released on 02/06)
week 3 (Thu: 02/09)	Graphical interface (part 1)   Content Quiz 1   Lecture 6 slide	Reading: Graphics	Content Quiz 1
week 4 (Tue: 02/14)	Graphical interface (part 2)   Lecture 7 slide	Reading: Graphics
week 4 (Thu: 02/16)	Boolean expression   Conditionals   Lecture 8 slide   Lab 3	Reading: Chapter 7	Lab 2 (due by 02/16)
week 5 (Tue: 02/21)	Random numbers   Conditionals (continued)   Lecture 9 slide	Reading: Chapter 7
week 5 (Thu: 02/23)	Sequence: String, List   Content Quiz 2   Lecture 10 slide	Reading: Chapter 9	Content Quiz 2 (due by 02/23)   Lab 3 (due by 02/26)
week 6 (Tue: 02/28)	Loop (while loop)   Loop (for loop)   Lecture 11 slide	Reading: Chapter 7
week 6 (Thu: 03/02)	Loop (for loop)   Lecture 12 slide	Reading: Chapter 7   Reading: Chapter 8
week 7 (Tue: 03/07)	Loop (value for loop vs index for loop)   Loop (nested for loop)   Nested Loop Visualization   Lecture 13 slide
week 7 (Thu: 03/09)	loop (for loop) review   Content Quiz 3	Reading: Chapter 10	Content Quiz 3 (due by 03/09)
week 8 (Tue: 03/14)	Spring break (no class)
week 8 (Thu: 03/16)	Spring break (no class)
week 9 (Tue: 03/21)	Assignment 2 (discussion)   String   Lecture 14 slide	Reading: Chapter 8
week 9 (Thu: 03/23)	String formating   Lecture 14 slide	Reading: Chapter 9
week 10 (Tue: 03/28)	Classes and objects   Lecture 15 slide	Reading: Chapter 15	Assignment 1 (due by 03/28)
week 10 (Thu: 03/30)	Accessing Object Attributes and Methods   Lecture 16 slide   Content Quiz 4	Reading: Chapter 16   Reading: Chapter 17	Content Quiz 4 (due by 03/30)
week 11 (Tue: 04/04)	Errors, Exceptions and try-except blocks   Guest Lecture by Dr Ritu Shandilya   Lecture 17 slide	Reading: Chapter 21
week 11 (Thu: 04/06)	Class/Object: Scope and Visibility   Class/Object: Inheritance   Lecture 18 slide	Reading: Chapter 18
week 12 (Tue: 04/11)	Final project discussion + proposal   List operations (add, update, and remove)   Lecture 19 slide   Lecture 20a slide	Reading: Chapter 10
week 12 (Thu: 04/13)	List operations (remove)   List of lists   Lecture 20b slide   Content Quiz 5	Reading: Chapter 10	Content Quiz 5 (due by 04/13)
week 13 (Tue: 04/18)	Assignment 3 discussion   List of lists (continue)   Dictionaries   Lecture 21a slide	Reading: Chapter 14	Final project proposal (due by 04/18)
week 13 (Thu: 04/20)	Dictionaries (continued)   Tuples   Lecture 21b slide	Reading: Chapter 11   Reading: Chapter 12
week 14 (Tue: 04/25)	File I/O (read operation)   Lecture 22 slide	Reading: Chapter 14	Assignment 3 (due by 04/25)
week 14 (Thu: 04/27)	File I/O (write and append operations)   Assignment 4 discussion   Lecture 23 slide	Reading: Chapter 14
week 15 (Tue: 05/02)	Content Quiz 6   Project presentation (Session I)		Content Quiz 6 (due by 05/02)
week 15 (Thu: 05/04)	Course Evaluation   Project presentation (Session II)
Week 16 (Tue: 05/09)	Final project code + slides		Assignment 4 (due by 05/09)   Final Project (due by 05/09)