This term we will be using Piazza for class discussion. The system is highly catered to getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates, the TA, and myself. Rather than emailing questions to the teaching staff, I encourage you to post your questions on Piazza. If you have any problems or feedback for the developers, email team@piazza.com.

Find our class page at: https://piazza.com/upenn/fall2016/cit590/home

Date	Lectures	Readings, Assignments, etc.
Aug 31	Introduction to CIT 590 Just enough Python	Lunar Lander (Python) Optional  Why is Programming Fun?
Sept 5	Labor Day (no classes)
Sept 7	Variables and values Unit testing	Unit Testing in Python Pig
Sept 12	Using IDLE	number_personalities.py and number_personalities_test.py
Sept 14	More about values Collections	The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) Three Musketeers
Sept 19	Loops Functions Errors
Sept 21	Math Strings	Traveling Salesman, city-data.txt, earth-distance.py
Sept 26	References
Sept 28	Files and Directories	Squarelotrons
Oct 3	Classes and Objects	Voting Booth (due Oct. 18)
Oct 5	No class
Fall Term Break is October 6 to 9, so no Friday recitations this week.
Oct 10	Tkinter Functional Python
Oct 12		Midterm and Answers
Oct 17	Processing Syntax Processing Drawings	Python to Java Picture assignment and student submissions
Oct 19	Processing Transformations Processing Animation
Oct 24	Control Structures Processing and Java Refactoring	Game
Oct 26	Getting Java and Eclipse Class Structure	Starting Eclipse
Oct 31	Polymorphism	Unit Testing in Java
Nov 2	JUnit	Simple21
Nov 7	Java I/O Simple Text I/O
Nov 9	Exceptions Error Messages	Percolation
Nov 14	Strings Collections Generics
Nov 16	Namespace, Scope, Access Arrays	Fractions
Nov 21	Operators Comments Style Rules	Caesar Cipher Due next Tuesday Midnight, as usual
Nov 23	Day before Thanksgiving (No class)
No Friday recitations the week of Thanksgiving.
Nov 28	Inner Classes Abstract Classes
Nov 30	More about Classes Managing Complexity	Battleship
Dec 5	Analysis Searching
Dec 7	Hashing Enums
Dec 12	Java O-O Summary
Dec 20	DRLB A1 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.	Registrar's final exam schedule Exam dates and times are set by the Registrar and are non-negotiable.

Key
A PDF document, usually one of my lectures	An assignment	Software that will be useful in this course
A tutorial	Additional information about the assignment or topic	Official specification (always offsite)
An article; indicates offsite	Example	Quiz or exam