Utah Introduction to Python 1 and 2

Students will be able to:

• Define programming/coding
• Use basic Tracy commands
• Write their first program

Students will be able to:

• Describe the difference between low-level and high-level programming languages and give examples of both
• Describe the difference between compiled and interpreted programming languages and give examples of both
• Explore a timeline of programming languages

Students will be able to:

• Locate Tracy on the coordinate plane
• Use the penup(), pendown(), backward(), goto(), setposition(), setx(), and sety() commands in their programs

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • compiled vs interpreted languages
  • high level vs low level languages
  • forward
  • circle
  • backward
  • penup / pendown
  • setposition
  • goto
  • setx / sety

Students will be able to:

• utilize different methods of checking their programs
• understand the limitations of autograders

Students will be able to:

• Use the left and right commands in order to turn Tracy from her current direction
• Use the setheading/seth commands to turn Tracy to face a specific direction

Students will be able to:

• Create for loops to repeat code a fixed number of times
• Explain when a for loop would be a useful tool
• Utilize for loops to write programs that would be difficult/impossible without loops
• Use the bgcolor command to change the color of Tracy’s canvas

Students will be able to:

• Use angles inside turning commands
• Turn Tracy at angles in conjunction with for loops

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • for loops
  • left / right
  • setheading / seth
  • speed
  • bgcolor

Students will be able to:

• Use comments throughout their program
• Describe why comments are helpful for both themselves and anyone else looking at their code

Students will be able to:

• Name elements of their code by following specific guidelines and rules in order to create readable and working programs

Students will be able to:

• Define a function
• Call a function
• Explain why functions are used

Students will be able to:

• Use the extended circle() command to draw different shapes
• Use the color(), pensize(), begin_fill(), and end_fill() commands to add more creativity to their programs

Students will be able to:

• Use the write command to add text to the canvas
• Use additional attributes with the write command to change the font style and location of the text label created

Students will be able to:

• Break a large problem down into smaller pieces
• Write functions to solve each smaller problem
• Solve a complicated problem using Top Down Design

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • single and multi-line commenting
  • naming rules
  • defining and calling functions
  • top down design
  • color
  • pensize
  • begin_fill / end_fill
  • circle with extended parameters
  • write

Students will be able to:

• Come up with a creative mural design of their own
• Use Tracy commands and concepts to recreate an image

Students will be able to:

• Describe what variables are
• Discuss why variables are used in our programs

Students will be able to:

• Categorize values into different data types (string, integer, floating point number, and boolean)
• Use the type function to check the type of any value
• Use str, int, and float to cast values to different data types

Students will be able to:

• concatenate strings together to form more complex messages
• use escape sequences to:
  
  • split commands onto multiple lines
  • print quotation marks inside strings
  • add new lines to strings

Students will be able to:

• Call methods on values
• Use the following string methods to alter text
  
  • upper
  • lower
  • capitalize

Students will be able to:

• Incorporate user input into their code in order to customize their programs
• Use format to edit string messages

Students will be able to:

• Incorporate parameters into their functions in order to adapt their functions to multiple situations

Students will be able to:

• Debug common errors in code

Students will be able to:

• use the onclick function inside their programs
• use the getscreen function to allow the user to click anywhere on the canvas to trigger an event
• use and manipulate variables inside programs that use the onclick function

Students will be able to:

• Use i as a variable inside their for loop to control different commands

Students will be able to:

• Control the value of i using extended parameters

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • assigning and using variables
  • Data types (string, integer, floating point number, boolean)
  • type
  • print
  • int / str / float
  • Concatenation
  • Escape sequences
  • String methods
    
    • capitalize
    • upper
    • lower
  • input
  • clickable interaction using onclick

Students will be able to:

• Come up with a creative cycle depiction design of their own
• Use Tracy commands and concepts to create an interactive, informative program

Students will be able to:

• Use if statements in order to tell Tracy how to make decisions
• Use comparison string methods inside if statements

Students will be able to:

• Use if/else statements in order to have Tracy make decisions between multiple scenarios

Students will be able to:

• use the return keyword to return values from function back to the main program
• use the in keyword to check if a value is contained inside another

Students will be able to:

• Effectively use while loops in their programs
• Identify infinite loops
• Use the break statement inside while loops

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • If Statements
  • Comparison String Methods
    
    • isalpha
    • isdigit/isnumeric
    • isupper
    • islower
    • startswith
    • endswith
  • If/Else Statements
    
    • With and without elif
  • in keyword
  • Using return in functions
  • While Loops
    
    • With and without break

Students will be able to:

• Identify the different control structures we can use to modify the flow of control through a program
• Combine control structures to solve complicated problems
• Choose the proper control structure for a given problem

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of control structures and coding concepts through a multiple choice quiz

Students will be able to:

• Use Tracy commands and concepts to create an interactive calculator

Students will be able to:

• Review the following concepts:
  
  • for loops
    
    • using i as a variable
    • using extended parameters for stop and increment
  • commenting
  • functions
    
    • parameters
    • return values
  • data types and casting
  • formatting strings
    
    • escape sequences
    • concatenation
    • format
  • user input
  • clickable interaction
  • if/elif/else statements
  • while loops
    
    • forever loops using break
• Review the following commands:
  
  • forward
  • circle
    
    • with and without extended parameters for extent and steps
  • penup
  • pendown
  • goto / setposition
  • setx
  • sety
  • left
  • right
  • setheading / seth
  • bgcolor
  • speed
  • color
    
    • using color names and hex codes
  • begin_fill / end_fill
  • pensize
  • write
  • type
  • print
  • String methods:
    
    • capitalize
    • upper
    • lower
    • isalpha
    • isdigit / isnumeric
    • isupper
    • islower
    • startswith
    • endswith
  • input
  • onclick
  • getscreen
  • return
  • break

Students will be able to:

• Synthesize concepts and skills they should be comfortable with to create a project with a partner
• Gain experience programming with a partner

Students will be able to:

• Explain why lists are useful in programs
• Create lists with items of various types

Students will be able to:

• Provide two index values (positive and negative) for any item in a list
• Access individual items in a list using index values

Students will be able to:

• Use the index value of an item to update the contents of the item in a list

Students will be able to:

• Use the append method to add a new item to the end of a list
• Use the extend method to add new items to the end of a list
• Use the addition operator (+) to add two lists together
• Use the insert method to add a new item at a specific index in a list

Students will be able to:

• Use the pop method with no argument to remove an item from the end of a list
• Use the pop method to remove an item from a specific index in a list
• Use the remove method to remove a specific item from a list
• Use the del keyword to remove an item from a specific index in a list

Students will be able to:

• Use the sort method to organize items in a list by value
• Use the reverse method to reverse the order of items in a list

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • Creating lists (list_name = [item_1, item_2, ...])
  • Index values
  • Accessing list items (list_name[index])
  • Updating list items (list_name[index] = new_value)
  • Adding list items using:
    
    • append
    • extend
    • insert
    • +
  • Removing list items using:
    
    • pop
    • remove
    • del
  • Using additional list methods:
    
    • sort
    • reverse

Students will be able to:

• use the len function to determine the number of items in a list
• use the len function to access list items

Students will be able to:

• Use for loops to access items in a list one by one

Students will be able to:

• Use the in keyword to access items in a list one by one

Students will be able to:

• Practice concepts and skills they should be comfortable with to create a project with a partner
• Gain experience programming with a partner

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • Finding the length of a list using the len function
  • Looping over a list using index values with the range keyword
  • Looping over items in a list using the in keyword

Students will be able to:

• Create a list to keep track of multiple numbers
• Use list methods to update the list accordingly
• Practice with user click interaction and additional Tracy concepts

Students will be able to:

• Provide two index values (positive and negative) for any character in a string
• Access individual characters in a string using index values

Students will be able to:

• Access multiple characters in a string using slicing
• Describe which characters will be included in a slice when two values, one value, or no values are used (ie: #:#, #:, :#, :)

Students will be able to:

• Use list to separate a string into a list of characters
• Use split to separate a string into a list of words or groups of characters depending on the element provided for the split character
• Combine a list of elements into a string using join

Students will be able to:

• Use the strip method to remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string
• Use the replace method to use a different character throughout a string
• Use the find method to return the index value of the first location of a certain element in a string
• Use the count method to return the number of times an element occurs in a string

Students will be able to:

• Use the in keyword to access characters in a string
• Use the range keyword to access characters in a string
• Describe ways to alter characters in a string as it is looped through

Students will be able to:

• Describe ‘web scraping’
• Synthesize concepts and skills they have learned up to this point
• Gain additional experience programming with a partner

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • Indexing strings (string_var[index])
  • Slicing strings (string_var[index:index], string_var[index:], string_var[:index], string_var[:])
  • Splitting a string into a list of letters (list(string_var))
  • Splitting a string into a list of words (string_var.split() or string_var.split(element))
  • Combining a list into a string (element.join(list_var))
  • Looping over a list
  • Using additional string methods:
    
    • strip
    • replace
    • find
    • count

Students will be able to:

• Create a list to keep track of events and information
• Use string methods to effectively display text on the screen
• Practice with user interaction and additional Tracy concepts

Students will be able to:

• Understand the concept of File I/O and its importance in computer science
• Define what a file is and how it relates to data storage
• Explain the benefits and use cases of File I/O

Students will be able to

• Understand the importance of reading files and the role it plays in file handling tasks
• Use the open() function to open a file in read mode and the close() method to close the file properly
• Read the entire contents of a file using the read() method and store them in a variable
• Read a specific number of characters of a file using the read method with a value

Students will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and usage of the readline() method in Python for reading lines from a file.
• Demonstrate how to open a file and use readline() to read a single line at a time.
• Implement a loop to read and process multiple lines from a file using readline().
• Adapt the readline() method to solve practical problems and perform operations on each line read from a file.

Students will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and usage of the readlines() method in Python.
• Read and retrieve multiple lines from a file using readlines().
• Iterate through the lines obtained from readlines() and perform operations on each line.
• Apply different manipulations and processing techniques to the lines read from a file.
• Recognize the advantages and use cases of using readlines() in file handling scenarios.

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • File Types
  • Input and Output devices
  • open and close methods
  • read method with and without a parameter
  • readline method
  • readlines method

Students will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and importance of writing to files in programming
• Use the “w” mode to overwrite the contents of a file
• Use the “a” mode to append new data to the end of a file

Students will be able to:

• Understand the concept of a file pointer and its role in reading and writing data
• Use the tell() method to return the location of the file pointer
• Use the seek() method to move the file pointer to a specific position within a file
• Perform reading operations at a desired file pointer position

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • using write to create new files and append information to already existing files
  • using tell to return file pointer position
  • using seek to move the file pointer to a new position

Students will be able to:

• Use File I/O to read from and write to a file
• Use string methods to alter the contents of the file
• Use list methods to alter the structure of the file contents

Students will be able to:

• Look at ways Python is used and why it is a popular language
• Reflect on their experience learning Python

Students will be able to:

• Explore why Python is a popular language in research
• Explore how Python is used in industries such as sports, medicine, and academics

Students will be able to:

• Explore why Python is a popular language in big data
• Explore how Python is used in industries such as sports, music, social media, and artificial intelligence

Students will be able to:

• Explore why Python is a popular language for creative fields
• Explore how Python is used in industries such as gaming, design, and movies

Students will be able to:

• Prove their knowledge of the following commands and concepts through a multiple choice quiz:
  
  • Lists
  • String Manipulation
  • File I/O