These skills are fundamental to solving real problems in any programming language. All lectures, homework assignments, quizzes and exams are designed to help you to develop these skills, to assess your knowledge of them, and to the give you the opportunity to demonstrate you have mastered them.
PS-1. Assignment: associate a variable name with a value
PS-2. Know that in Python the type of the value determines the type of the variable
PS-3. Know how to insert comments into code fragments and modules
PS-4. Understand syntax errors
PS-5. Understand concept of NameError
PS-6. Understand concept of TypeError
PS-7. Understand concept of IndentationError
PS-8. Understand context in which variables are defined
PS-9. Understand how indentation identifies body of statements
PS-10. Understand nested indentation
PS-11. Understand operator precedence and use of parentheses for clarity
PS-12. Know how to make multiple assignments in a single Python statement
DT-1. Know basic data types of int, bool, char, float
DT-2. Know basic mathematical operators {-, +, *, /, //, **}
DT-3. Know difference between / and // division operators
DT-4. Generate random integer
DT-5. Generate random floating point number
PF-1. Know how to define a function
PF-2. Know how to define a function with parameters
PF-3. Know how to use return statement within a function
PF-4. Know how (and why) to compose functions f(g(x))
PF-5. Know how to document a function (""")
PM-1. Understand how to define a function within a module
PM-2. Understand how to import a module
PM-3. Understand how to define a variable within a module
PM-4. Know how to invoke functions defined in another module
PM-5. Know about math module
PM-6. Know about sys module
PM-7. Know about matplotlib module
PM-8. Know about numpy module
PM-9. Know how to re-import changed module by restarting Python terminal
PM-10. Know how to detect when you havent imported necessary module
PE-1. Know how to execute a python program (from within IDLE)
PE-2. Know how to execute a python program (from command prompt or windows desktop)
PE-3. Know how to interrupt a running python program
PE-4. Be able to use debugger to single step through a Python computation
OB-1. Understand the concept of class
OB-2. Understand the concept of object
OB-3. Know how to make a new object of a class
OB-4. Know how to apply a method of a class to a particular object (using the . operator)
OB-5. Know how (and why) to chain functions f(x).g(y)
OB-6. Understand the difference between immutable and mutable objects
CS-1. Know if, else, and elif statements
CS-2. Know how to nest if statements
CS-3. Write definite for loop
CS-4. Know how to use range in definite for loop
CS-5. Know how to use while as indefinite loop
CS-6. Know how to use break statement within loop
CS-7. Know how to use continue statement within loop
CS-8. Understand nesting of for and while loops
CS-9.
Understand logical
CS-10. Understand comparative operators {<, <=, >, >=, ==, <>, !=}
SM-1. Know how to convert string into integers and floats
SM-2. Know how to convert floats and integers into string
SM-3. Know how to read string input from keyboard
SM-4. Know how to search through a string to find delimited tokens and regions
SM-5. Know how to use ord(char) to determine ASCII or Unicode code for a character
SM-6. Know how to use chr(int) to generate character from a given ASCII or Unicode code
SL-1. Know basic string and list operations of +, *, [], slicing, and length
SL-2. Know how to iterate thru a string or a list
SL-3. Know how to delete an element from a string or list
SL-4. Know how to insert an element into a string or list
SL-5. Know the difference between a tuple and a list
SL-6. Know how to access and modify individual elements of a list
SL-7. Understand the concept of a dictionary
SL-8. Know how to add things to a dictionary and how to retrieve them
IO-1. Know how to print information to the console window
IO-2. Know how to read raw input from console as string
IO-3. Know how to write data to a file
IO-4. Know how to read in text data containing strings of text
IO-5. Know how to read in CSV formatted data
IO-6. Understand use of dictionaries in processing CSV data
IO-7. Understand why opened files need to be closed
IO-8. Know how to append data to a file
IO-9. Know how to use eval to convert arbitrary string into python data type
DG-1. Identify an arithmetic defect
DG-2. Identify logic defect
DG-3. Identify syntax defect
DG-4. Demonstrate logical reasoning from observed error back to failure back to code defect
DG-5. Demonstrate by-hand execution of small code fragments
GR-1. Draw simply geometric figures in a window on the display
GR-2. Plot numerical data in a graph
GR-3. Plot information on a picture, image, or map
Updated August 2016