Year-2025. Time: Tue, 15:30-19:30h, Location: Library Room 166

Week	Date	Activity	Lecture topic	Worksheets + Notes	Important Dates
1	9/9/25	In-class	Welcome, goals, Introduction to algorithms.
		Lab	Install Jypyter notebooks, use Jupyter to complete webscraper and BG Survey	Background_survey webscraper
		Outside	Make presentation for Week 2.
2	9/16/25	In-class	Student presentations Part 1 by Zoom. Intro to Sci. Languages: Data types, indexing, bools, loops.	Intro_Python.ipynb
		Lab	Complete the basic_stats worksheet; build a code for 'first cut' analysis of a new data set.
		Outside	For next week, read: Enthought_numpy slides on arrays, Numpy docs, and Matplotlib.pyplot docs
3	9/23/25	In-class	Investigate and present coding structures.	Arrays
		Lab	Arrays and Indexing. Data visualization.	Data vis
		Outside	Finish worksheets on data visualization
4	9/30/25	In-class	Intro to algorithms and geographic coordinate systems		Quiz on indexing and loops
		Lab	More on loops and modules.	More_loops+Recursion.ipynb
		Outside	Map making in Cartopy.	geoplot_worksheet.ipynb
5	10/7/25	In-class	Error and exception catching and handling.	Errors_Exceptions.ipynb
		Lab
		Outside	Read Ch. 2 in Realworld Computing on circuits
6	10/14/25	In-class	Presentation on I/O Wire up LED and thermistor. Analyze an LED circuit.		Submit your term project proposal.
		Lab	Make a copy of led_voltage_analysis.ino and set it up to turn LED circuit on and off with a keystroke.	LED Lab Instructions LED Voltage Analysis	Quiz on circuits
		Outside	Finish LED lab with polled LED functionality
7	10/21/25	In-class	Reading and collecting serial data, connect Arduino to Python to measure temperature.	Thermistor Lab Part 1
		Lab	Build and analyze thermistor circuit, Use timekeeping and dataframes to collect data and timestamp it.	Thermistor Lab Part2 therm_plotter_polled_Python.ipynb
		Outside	Collect overnight temperature data, plot.
8	10/28/25	In-class	Intro to Dataframes in Pandas	Pandas Lab
		Lab	Term project work session.
		Outside
9	11/5/25	In-class	Statistics for sequential data: Regression, auto/cross correlation.
		Lab	Calibrate thermistors.
		Outside	Exercise on heat flow and cross-correlation.
10	11/11/25	In-class	Veterans Day, no class		No class
		Lab			No class
		Outside			No class
11	11/18/25	In-class
		Lab
		Outside
12	11/25/25	In-class
		Lab			Thanksgiving week (Nov 24-28)
		Outside
13	12/2/25	In-class
		Lab
		Outside
14	12/9/25	In-class	Term project presentations		No class
		Lab	Term project presentations
		Outside	Term project presentations

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