Introduction to Computer Science II
CSC 242

Python

• Python, the web-site, comprehensive, includes
  • Python 3.2.3 downloads (for Windows, MacOS)
  • Tutorial
  • Reference
• Introduction to Computer Science with Python, Ljubomir Perkovic, Wiley, 2012.
• xkcd on Python
• Python compared to other languages
• From Python to Java
• An annotated list of methods you can overload in an Python object
• all about function arguments: default values, how to set them, how to write functions with variable number of arguments (like print)
• Discussion of lambda terms in Python

Computer Science

• Outline of computer science
• Turing machines: in Lego, with markers, in Minecraft
• Babbage's difference engine no. 2, analytical engine
• On becoming a programmer in 21 days
• xkcd: Unicode joke
• xkcd on Sorting

Interviews, Puzzles, etc.

• How would you move Mount Fuji, William Poundstone, 2003. About the Microsoft Puzzle interviews.
• Test your Agile Mind (Deutsche Bank)
• Robozzle

Databases

• sqlite (download executables for command-line interface)
• how to enforce foreign keys in sqlite