Editing DS4UX (Spring 2016)/Schedule (section)

=== Week 2: April 4 ===
[[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_2_plan|Day 2 plan]]

;Agenda
* We will review the [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_2_lecture#Part 1: Review|programming concepts introduced last week]] as a group.
* We will introduce some [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_2_lecture#Part_2:_New_programming_concepts|new programming concepts]] into the mix.
* We will play a guessing game ('''[http://jtmorgan.net/ds4ux/week2/others/favorite_buildings.py click here to download the code]''')
* We will use what we have learned so far to [[Wordplay|cheat at Scrabble]].
* We will introduce our first set of Coding Challenges.
* We will take a sneak peak at what a [https://nyssadatascience.wordpress.com/ good final project] looks like.

;Homework 
* Complete [https://www.codecademy.com/courses/python-beginner-en-kSQwt/1/1 the second set of CodeAcademy lessons]
* Work on the Week 2 [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_2_coding_challenge|coding challenges]]

;Resources
* Python for Informatics: [http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-009/book003.html Chapter 2  Variables, expressions and statements] and [http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-009/book004.html Chapter 3  Conditional execution]
* [[Python data types cheat sheet]]
* [[Python loops cheat sheet]]
* [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Working_within_loops|Working within loops]]
* [[Wordplay handout]]
* [http://communitydata.cc/~mako/cdsw-au2015-lecture1-20151010.ogv cdsw-au2015-lecture1-20151010.ogv] -- Mako Hill's lecture video from a previous course, which covers most of the concepts from my Week 1 and Week 2 lectures.
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