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	LED circuit programmed to activate at interval and at keystroke. Prepare term project proposal.		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 R or Python to measure temperature.
		Lab	Build and analyze thermistor circuit, Use timekeeping and dataframes to collect data and timestamp it.
		Outside	Collect overnight temperature data, plot.
8	10/28/25	In-class	Intro to Dataframes in Pandas and in R.
		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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