OPS445 Weekly Schedule

Note: Each OPS445 instructor will indicate the due dates for labs, tests and assignments. This schedule is a considered to be a general guideline for week-by-week content.

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Videos	Labs
Week 1: 5 - 9 january	Course overview and prep for labs: Learning outcomes Prerequisite skills Course passing requiements Workstation setup	Andrew's Course Introduction	Prep for Labs
Week 2: 12 - 17 january	Getting started with Python Hello World program Running Python programs Values and variables Strings Integers	Andrew's Lab 1	Lab 1
Week 3: 19 - 24 january	Control statements User input if/elif/else conditional execution while loops	Andrew's Lab 2	Lab 2
Week 4: 26 - 31 january	Functions Defining functions Receiving arguments and returning values Running system commands os.system subprocess.Popen	Andrew's Lab 3	Lab 3
Week 5: 2 - 6 february	Data structures Lists Tuples Dictionaries	Andrew's Lab 4	Lab 4
Week 6: 9 - 13 february	Assignment 1 part 1	Andrew's Assignment 1 part 1	Assignment 1 part 1
Week 7: 17 - 20 february (monday is a holiday)	Midterm
Break Week: 23 - 27 february
Week 8: 2 - 6 march	Reading and writing text files open(), read(), close() write() Exception Handling try/except	Andrew's Lab 5	Lab 5
Week 9: 9 - 13 march		Andrew's Assignment 1 part 2	Assignment 1 part 2
Week 10: 16 - 20 march	Classes and objects Concepts Constructors Attributes Methods	Andrew's Lab 6	Lab 6
Week 11: 23 - 27 march	Classes and objects Design practice Scope Local scope Global scope Object/instance scope	Andrew's Lab 7	Lab 7
Week 12: 30 march - 2 april (friday is a holday)	Assignment 2	Andrew's Assignment 2	Assignment 2
Week 13: 6 - 10 april	Assignment 2
Week 14: 13 - 17 april	Evaluation Exam