Editing Community Data Science Course (Spring 2023) (section)

=== Week 3: April 10 ===

Today we'll be doing introducing some additional programming concepts in Python including aggregating and counting with dictionaries and some first steps toward writing data to files.

'''Class session:'''

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f855f94e-a0e7-4483-ad73-afe1011f745d Video of announcements and week 2 programming challenges] [Requires Canvas Access]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=da51ee4c-59b7-4925-9f64-afe1011f7452 Video of week 2 lecture] [Requires Canvas Access]
* [[/Week 3 lecture notes]]
* [https://github.com/kayleachampion/spr23_CDSW/blob/main/curriculum/week3/week3-class_lecture.ipynb Week 3 lecture Jupyter notebook]

'''Resources:'''

* Chapter 5, 6, and 8 of ''Python for Everyone'':
** [https://www.py4e.com/html3/05-iterations Chapter 5, Iterations]: Feel free to skip down to "Definite loops using for" or just skim the first part since we'll introduce it next week
** [https://www.py4e.com/html3/06-strings Chapter 6, Strings] 
** [https://www.py4e.com/html3/08-lists Chapter 8, Lists]: You can skip the part on "Parsing lines"
* [[Python loops cheat sheet]]

'''Assignment Due:'''

* [[#Final Project Idea|Final project idea]] (Due at 5pm on Monday, April 10)
* Finish and turn in your [[/Week 2 coding challenges]] (Due Sunday before class)

'''Class schedule:'''

* Some quick announcements
* Go over last week's assignments
* [[/Week 3 lecture notes]] introducing new material on dictionaries and aggregations plus average, more loop control, and writing data to files
* ''A Break''
* Introduce the [[/Week 3 coding challenges]] based on the [[Baby names]] project.
* Project time—We'll work through projects

<!--'''Resources:'''

* [[Python data types cheat sheet]] A cheat sheet with everything we've covered in class so far including today.

'''By the end of class you will:'''

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