Weekly Lab Exercises Main course Moodle page The lab exercises will be posted here weekly. The work in lab will lead into and be part of the week's project. Labs will also count significantly towards participation.

Lab Instructor Information Prof. Stephanie R. Taylor Office: Roberts 224D Email: s r taylor _at_ colby _dot_ edu Office hours: M 1:30-3:30, T 2-5, F 1-3 By appointment (email me), and whenever my door is open

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Learning Goals

The learning goals for the lecture and lab are the same -- both are meant to work together to accomplish the goals for the course as a whole. They are

1. Students can read a simple program and correctly identify its behavior
2. Students can convert a problem statement into a working program that solves the problem.
3. Students understand abstraction and can break down a program into appropriate procedural and object-oriented components
4. Students can generate an approximate model of computer memory and describe how an algorithm affects its contents.
5. Students can communicate the result of their work and describe an algorithm.

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Lab Exercise 1: Equipping yourself for the projects Project due midnight, Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Lab Exercise 2: Python, functions, and parameters Project due midnight, Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Lab Exercise 3: Loops, conditionals and command line parameters Project due midnight, Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Lab Exercise 4: Images Project due midnight, Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Lab Exercise 5: Object Collections Project due midnight, Friday, 22 March 2013

Lab Exercise 6: Strings, Grammars, and Trees Project due midnight, Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Lab Exercise 7: Classes Project due midnight, Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Lab Exercise 8: Inheritance Project due midnight, Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Lab Exercise 9: Not Quite Straight Lines Project due midnight, Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Lab Exercise 10: 3D Turtle Project due midnight, Friday, 10 May 2013