Table of Contents

1. Class 1 - Numbers

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September 9, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review after class)
• Recap (25 mins)
• Class Exercise (15 mins)
• Wrap-up (20 mins)

2. Class 2 - Strings & Images

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September 10, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

3. Class 3 - Definitions

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September 14, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Announcements
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

4. Class 4 - Functions

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September 16, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 0, 1
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (10 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

5. Class 5 - Conditionals, Tests, and print

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September 17, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 0, 1, 2
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (20 mins)
• Class Exercise (30 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

6. Class 6 - Ethics & Stakeholder Analysis

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September 21, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 10, 11
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

7. Class 7 - Introduction to tables

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September 23, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 3
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

8. Class 8 - Functions over rows

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September 24, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 0, 1, 3
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

9. Class 9 - Adding columns

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September 28, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 0, 1, 3
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercise (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

10. Class 10 - Tests for tables & privacy analysis

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September 30, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 0, 1, 3, 10
• Notes (review before class)
• Announcement -- tests for your tests in autograder (10 mins)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercise (30 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

11. Class 11 - Cleaning data

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October 1, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 3
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (20 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

12. Class 12 - Task planning & visualization

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October 5, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (25 mins)
• Class Activity (30 mins)
• Wrap up (5 mins)

13. Class 13 - Extracting columns

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October 7, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (25 mins)
• Class Exercise (30 mins)
• Wrap-Up (5 mins)

14. Class 14 - Operating on Lists

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October 14, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (20 mins)
• Class Exercise (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

15. Class 15 - Variables and loops

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October 15, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 4
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

16. Class 16 - Working with Lists

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October 19, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 4
• Recap (5 mins)
• Class Exercises (50 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

17. Class 17 - Testing and variables that change

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October 21, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 4
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

18. Class 18 - Scoping in Python

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October 22, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 5
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

19. Class 19 - Structured data

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October 26, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 6
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (10 mins)
• Class Exercise (45 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

20. Class 20 - Conditional data

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October 28, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 6
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

21. Class 21 - Recursive functions by examples

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October 29, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 7
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (20 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

22. Class 22 - Templates for lists

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November 2, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 7
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

23. Class 23 - Intro to trees & Trees as recursive data

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November 4, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 8
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (20 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

24. Class 24 - More trees

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November 9, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (20 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

25. Class 25 - Mutable Data Structures and the Heap

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November 12, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: 9
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

26. Class 26 - Pandas basics (creating, loading, accessing)

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November 16, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (20 mins)
• Class Exercises (35 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

27. Class 27 - Filtering, sorting & transforming with Pandas

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November 18, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

0. Style Guide

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Date unavailable

Est 0 minutes

Topics

• Style Guide
• Python Programs

33. Extra - Dictionaries

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December 7, 2026

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

33. Extra - Recommendation Systems

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Date unavailable

Est 60 minutes

Topics

• Skills: None
• Notes (review before class)
• Recap (15 mins)
• Class Exercises (40 mins)
• Part 1: Loading and Converting Data
• Part 2: Extracting Movies from a Row
• Part 3: Building the Co-occurrence Dictionary
• Part 4: Making Recommendations
• Part 5: Testing the System
• Wrap-up (5 mins)

. Extra - λ

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December 7, 2026

Est 0 minutes

Topics

• Act 1. The Logicians
• Act 2. Models of Computation
• Act 3. The Lambda Calculus

. Extra - λY

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December 7, 2026

Est 0 minutes

Topics

• Omega
• Moving towards recursion
• One more layer
• Moving towards Y