Computer Graphics!

November 20th, 2009

Today we looked at the implementation of some graphics primitives using numpy arrays.
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Accessing the web

November 18th, 2009

Today we talked about how the web works and how we can use it from python. We ended by looking at a simple script to access the weather forecast from yahoo.
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Check your grades on BlackBoard

November 18th, 2009

The TA’s are worried that a few of you might be missing some things you thought you turned in…

Functions we use

November 18th, 2009

Annie suggested a list of functions we use and what they do would be helpful. Good idea!

Here is version 1 generated by a simple script. I’ll post the script and its input later.
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Reading and Analyzing Typing Data

November 16th, 2009

Today we talked about reading the data from a typical typing experiment and then doing some simple analysis.
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Hangman!

November 13th, 2009

Today we sketched how a hangman game might work.
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Prime Numbers

November 11th, 2009

Today we worked through a mystery function. Turned out it was producing a list of primes less than or equal to n.

The book I couldn’t remember is Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire. Our library has it.
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Final Exam Time

November 11th, 2009

11 December 8AM

Jumble Solver

November 9th, 2009

Monday in class we developed a jumble solver. I forgot to record the transcript but here is the function we wrote.
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Transcript of today

November 6th, 2009

Here is a transcript of the examples we did relative to the experiment assignment.
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