General information#
- Dr. Dan Andrews is your lecturer in the 1st half of the semester.
- Dr. Brian Parker is your lecturer in the 2nd half of the semester.
- Lectures twice a week: Monday, 1-2PM & Tuesday, 10AM-11PM.
- All lectures take place in the Copland Lecture Theatre.
- Links to PDFs of the lecture slides and associated Python codes will be available (at the latest) after each lecture.
- Livestream lectures and recordings available on echo360, see the link on Course Wattle page.
Schedule#
Links to slides and code will be available on the lecturing dates.
Recommended reading#
Find below some recommended readings if you want to come better prepared to the lectures and/or reinforce your understanding afterwards.
Week | Recommended readings |
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1 | Downey’s book, chapters 1-2. Sundnes’s book, Sects. 2.1-2.2 and 4.1-4.3, 4.5-4.7 |
2 | Downey’s book, chapters 3, 4 and 6. Sundnes’s book, chapter 4. docs.python.org Sections 4.7 & 4.8 |
3 | Downey’s book, chapters 5 and 7. Sundnes’s book, Sects. 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.4. docs.python.org, 4.1 to 4.5 |
4 | Downey’s book, chapter 8. |
5 | Downey’s book, chapter 8, 10, 11 and 12. Sundnes’s book, Section 3.3, 3.6, 7.1 and 7.4. docs.python.org, 3.1, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.3 and 5.5 |
6 | Downey’s book, chapter 14. docs.python.org, 6.0, 6.1, 7.2, 9.3 |
7 | Sundnes’s book, chapter 6. (excluding section 6.4) |
8 | Downey’s book, chapter 7 and parts of 13. Sundnes’s book, Section 4.7 (test functions) 7.1, 7.2, 7.3. docs.python.org, 5.4 and 5.5 |
9 | Downey’s book, chapter 20 (called “Appendix A” in the on-line edition), chapter 14 section “Catching Exceptions”. Sundnes’s book, Section 5.5 |
10 | Downey’s book, chapter 21 (“Analysis of Algorithms”, called Appendix B in the on-line edition) introduces complexity analysis of algorithms. |
11 | Downey’s book, 18.7 covers class inheritance. Sundnes’s book, Section 9.1 covers class inheritance |
12 | Downey’s book, 3.10 briefly covers pure functions (strangely referred to using the non-standard name “fruitful” functions). |