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Weekly Technical Questions

Table of Contents

Technical Questions

Week One: August 31, 2020 to September 4, 2020

  • How do I install and use the industry-standard programming tools that will help me to rigorously explore discrete structures with the Python programming language?

Reading Assignments

Week Two: September 7, 2020 to September 11, 2020

  • How do I connect mathematical terminology (e.g., mapping, function, number, and set), to the implementation of Python programs that declare and call functions and declare and manipulate variables?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapters 1 and 2 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking
  • Chapter 1 of Doing Math with Python

Week Three: September 14, 2020 to September 18, 2020

  • How do I use iteration and conditional logic in a Python program to perform computational tasks like processing the contents of a file and mathematical tasks like using Newton's method to approximate the square root of a number?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapter 3 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking
  • Appendix B of Doing Math with Python

Week Four: September 21, 2020 to September 25, 2020

  • How do I use non-recursive functions, recursive functions, and lambda expressions to perform mathematical operations such as computing the absolute value of a number and the mean and median of a sequence of numbers?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapter 4 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking
  • Chapter 3 of Doing Math with Python

Week Five: September 28, 2020 to October 2, 2020

  • How do I use debugging statements to better understand the behavior of functions that use iteration and recursion to perform mathematical operations such as computing the factorial sequence, the square of a number, and the mean and median of a sequence of numbers?

Reading Assignments

  • All previously assigned chapters in Programming and Mathematical Thinking
  • All previously assigned chapters in Doing Math with Python

Week Six: October 5, 2020 to October 9, 2020

  • How do I employ the mathematical concepts of ordered pairs, n-tuples, and lists to implement efficient Python programs that use functions with a clearly specified behavior to perform tasks like the input and parsing of a comma separated value file?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapter 5 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking
  • Chapter 6 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking

Week Seven: October 12, 2020 to October 16, 2020

  • How do I employ the mathematical concepts of sequences, monoids, and lists to implement efficient Python programs that use functions with a clearly specified behavior to perform tasks like finding a name in a file or computing the arithmetic mean of data values?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapter 6 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking
  • Chapters 2 and 3 of Doing Math with Python

Week Eight: October 19, 2020 to October 23, 2020

  • How do I use dynamically generated streams of data to implement memory efficient and predictable Python programs?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapter 7 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking
  • Chapters 2 and 3 of Doing Math with Python

Week Nine: October 26, 2020 to October 30, 2020

  • How do I use the mathematical concepts of sets and Boolean logic to design Python programs that are easier to implement and understand?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapter 8 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking
  • Chapter 5 of Doing Math with Python

Week Ten: November 2, 2020 to November 6, 2020

  • How do I use the implementation of a finite set in Sympy to create Python programs that calculate probabilities?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapter 5 of Doing Math with Python
  • Chapter 8 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking

Week Eleven: November 9, 2020 to November 13, 2020

  • How do I use dictionaries, tuples, and lists to correctly implement efficient mathematical functions in Python?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapter 9 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking

Week Twelve: November 16, 2020 to November 20, 2020

  • How do I use the concept of a relation and the industrially relevant practice of object-oriented programming to correctly implement easy-to-understand programs in Python?

Reading Assignments

  • Chapter 10 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking
  • Chapter 11 of Programming and Mathematical Thinking

Calendar Overview

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