Overview of scripting languages. Study of Python language in depth. Discussion of supported libraries. Applications to system administration, graphics output, network communications, GUI design, and other fields, at the instructor's discretion.
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Course Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes |
Program Learning Outcomes |
Teaching Methods |
Assessment Methods |
Write, debug, and run a program given a problem description. |
2,4,6 |
Lecture, practice |
Homework, testing |
Install and use extra software libraries as needed by the task. |
2,4,6 |
Lecture, practice |
Homework, testing |
Perform system administration tasks with scripts. |
2,4,6 |
Lecture, practice |
Homework, testing |
Produce graphical output from given data. |
2,4,6 |
Lecture, practice |
Homework, testing |
Do research about scripting languages and assess their relative merits. |
2,4,6 |
Lecture, research project |
Project presentation |
Complete a programming project. |
2,4,6 |
Lecture, research project |
Project presentation |
Course Flow
Week |
Topics |
Study Materials |
1 |
Introduction and overview. Scripting languages. The Python language. |
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2 |
Installing Python. Interactive use. Simple scripts. |
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3 |
Variables, lists, dictionaries. |
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Decisions, loops. |
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Functions. |
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Object-oriented programming. |
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Plotting data. |
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8 |
Regular expressions and text processing. |
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9 |
Parsing web pages |
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10 |
System administration |
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Process management |
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12 |
GUI design with Tkinter |
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13 |
GUI design with Tkinter |
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14 |
Class presentations |
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15 |
Final |
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Recommended Sources
Textbook |
Mark Lutz, Learning Python, O'Reilly Publishing. |
Additional Resources |
Online reference material at python.org |
Material Sharing
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Assignments |
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Exams |
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Assessment
IN-TERM STUDIES |
NUMBER |
PERCENTAGE |
Homework assignment |
10 |
70 |
Project presentation |
1 |
30 |
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Total |
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100 |
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE |
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40 |
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE |
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60 |
Total |
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100 |
COURSE CATEGORY |
Expertise/Field Courses |
Course’s Contribution to Program
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Program Learning Outcomes |
Contribution |
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Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop the complete systems for multi-media visual user interface. |
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Information Systems graduates have advanced the knowledge and skills to design, develop and install the application systems for multi-media. |
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Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design, develop and apply algorithms and data structures to solve the basic problems of information processing, within the framework of discrete mathematics. |
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Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop computer applications, based on user specificed requirements, using modern structured development tools and install them on various hardware platforms and deploy their usage. |
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Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop computer applications, based on user specificed requirements, using modern object-oriented development tools and install them on various hardware platforms and deploy their usage. |
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Information Systems graduates know the logic of computer operating systems, the basic set of system commands, how to control access to system resources by users of different departments and how to monitor the running of jobs in the system. |
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Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop data models serving different requirements, database applications that would access and process data using various types of software, including queries, reports and business applications. |
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Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop business applications that would provide data acess, modification and processing for data kept in enterprise database systems. |
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Information Systems graduates have the knowledge about computer networks, and have the skills to design, develop and monitor computer networks, how to configure them and how to maintain their performance. |
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Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop visual user interfaces for the web, web-based applications for n-tier client/server configurations, how to deploy them in enterprises. |
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Information Systems graduates, within his/her job responsibilities can communicate the necessary information both written and orally in Turkish, English and another foreign language, respecting the values the societal institutions and establishments, of which he/she has acquired in the program. |
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ECTS
Activities |
Quantity |
Duration |
Total |
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) |
15 |
3 |
45 |
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) |
15 |
3 |
45 |
Homework |
10 |
4 |
40 |
Preparation of class presentation |
1 |
20 |
20 |
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0 |
Total Work Load |
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150 |
Total Work Load / 25 (h) |
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6,00 |
ECTS Credit of the Course |
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6 |