Computer Science 2500:
Data Analysis with Scripting Languages
(Fall 2011)

Instructor	Office	Office Hours	Lectures
Todd Wareham harold@mun.ca	EN-2034 864-4601	TBA	MWF, 11-11:50 am EN-1052

• Course outline
• Course diary
• Assignments
• Answers to Class Exam #1 (PDF)
• Answers to Class Exam #2 (PDF)
• Answers to Final Exam (PDF; tf_GUI_F11.py)
• Course marks (assignments/exams) (as of 7:50 am, Dec 15)

• Home pages for previous offerings of this course:
  • Fall 2010 (Wareham)
  • Fall 2009 (Wareham)
  • Fall 2008 (Wareham)
  • Winter 2008 (Wareham)
  • Fall 2007 (Byrne)

• On-line resources:
  • General Python sites
    • Wikipedia: Python
    • Python Home Page
    • Python 2.6.6 (Version available on MUN CS machines)
      • Python 2.6.6 Tutorial
      • Python 2.6.6 Documentation
      • Python 2.6.6 Library Reference
    • Python 3.2 Documentation (latest version)
    • Useful Python Modules, Packages, and Libraries
    • Dive Into Python: An online textbook
    • Learn Python the Hard Way: Another online textbook (with lots of exercises)
    • MITOpenCourseware: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (a neat online Python course)
    • Python Challenge (an online Python programming competition)
  • Application-specific sites
    • pythex -- An online tool for testing regular expressions.
    • GUI development
      • Tkinter (Wiki / Reference manual)
    • VPython -- Create 3D graphics and animations using Python
    • Google App Engine -- Automatically run Python scripts on Google's computing infrastructure
  • Discipline-specific sites
    • BioPython: Python Tools for Computational Molecular Biology
    • ChemPython: Python Tools for Chemical Informatics
    • EconPy: Python Packages for Economics Research
    • NLTK: Natural Language Toolkit for Python
    • Python for Physics
    • PsychoPy: Psychology Software in Python (Psychology, Neuroscience, Psychophysics)
    • NumPy: Numerical Tools for Python
    • SciPy: Scientific Library for Python
  • Vaults of Parnassus: Python Resources
  • SourceForge.net -- The world's largest Open Source software development website.

Notices:

• November 25, 12:15pm
  Answer for Assignment #8 posted.

• Nov 21, 2:15pm
  Fixed error in both answer code and supplied script file "rtrans.script" (wrt the length of lines in outputs) for Question #2 in Assignment #8.

• November 18, 12:40pm
  Answer for Assignment #7 posted.

• November 10, 10:15am
  Final Exam notes posted here.

• November 10, 8:35am
  Fixed major errors in both Assignment #7 answer code and supplied script file "PyText2.script".

• Nov 9, 8:55am
  Assignment #8 posted.

• October 31, 12:20pm
  Answer for Assignment #6 posted.

• October 24, 12:00pm
  Answers for Assignment #5 posted.

• Oct 24, 10:10am
  Assignment #7 posted.

• Oct 20, 10:05am
  Assignment #6 posted.

• October 18, 2:05pm
  Error in Question #1 of Assignment #5 (incorrect program results in script file) fixed.

• October 14, 12:10pm
  Answers for Assignment #4 posted.

• October 7, 9:25am
  Answers for Class Exam #1 posted.

• October 3, 1:00pm
  Answers for Assignment #3 posted.

• September 23, 12:45pm
  Answers for Assignment #2 posted.

• September 19, 12:20pm
  Answers for Assignment #1 posted.

• September 14, 12:30pm
  Errors in Questions #1 (missing file "nd5.dat") and Question #2 (incorrect given data and output-script files) in Assignment #2 fixed.

• Sep 13, 8:10am
  Class Exam #2 notes posted here.

• Sep 12, 12:35pm
  Class Exam #1 notes posted here.

• August 15, 3:15pm
  Assignment #5 posted.

• August 15, 12:40pm
  Assignment #4 posted.

• August 10, 12:10 pm
  Assignment #3 posted.

• August 10, 8:00am
  Assignment #9 posted.

• August 9, 4:50pm
  Assignment #2 posted.

• August 9, 1:50pm
  Assignment #1 posted.

• June 20, 3:00 pm
  Open for business!

Created: June 20, 2011
Last Modified: December 15, 2011