This is an introductory course to computer programming and related mathematical/logic background for students without a Bachelor in Computer Science or in Computer Engineering. The objective is to smoothly introduce the student to the programming concepts and tools needed for typical data processing and data analysis tasks. The course consists of lectures and practice in computer labs.
Starting from this year, the course is ANNUAL: so, classes will start in September and finish in May. Hence, the first exam date for students attending the course this year for the first time will be at the end of May.
Day of Week | Hour | Room | Type |
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Thursday | 09:00 - 11:00 | <html><a href='https://meet.google.com/rqn-hqca-zep'>Remote lecture</a></html> | Remote lecture |
Friday | 09:00 - 11:00 | <html><a href='https://meet.google.com/rqn-hqca-zep'>Remote lecture</a></html> | Remote lecture |
<html> <span style=“color:red”> <b>NEWS:<br> </b> Google Meets link for remote lectures: <a href='https://meet.google.com/rqn-hqca-zep'>Join Class</a></b>.</span><br> </span></html>
Exams is made out of two parts:
Registration to exams is mandatory: register here
Virtual room for the Written part is the same as the one used for classes. Always check here for specific information on specific sessions.
<html> <span style=“color:red”> IMPORTANT: </span></html> To be able to solve the C exercises during the exam, you need to use either the Linux partition or DevC++ installed in the Windows partition of the computers' lab. Please, read carefully the instructions in the Software section above.
Day | Hour | Room | Type |
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01/06/2020 | 09:00 - | Virtual Room | I summer session |
22/06/2020 | 09:00 - | Virtual Room | II summer session |
13/07/2020 | 09:00 - | Virtual Room | III summer session |
25/08/2020 | 09:00 - | Virtual Room | fall session |
Students that passed Lab exam of the 16th of June, have to sign here for the oral part:
https://agende.unipi.it/eyy-wad-pxg
Sample exam texts: 1, 2, 3, 4,5,6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
Recordings of lessons are available, and are password protected. Ask the teachers for credentials.
Day | Room | Topic | Learning material | Recordings | Instructor | |
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1. | 16.9 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Introduction. Propositional logic. | [T: 1.1-1.3] | 20170918.flv20180917_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
2. | 19.9 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Algorithms and programming: notions, programming steps, states, expressions and assignment. Introduction to Python. Data types, expressions using numbers, variables. | [P: 1-4] | 20170920.mp420180920_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
3. | 23.9 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Exercises. Rules of inference for propositional logic. | [T: 1.6] | 20170919.flv20180918_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
4. | 26.9 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Exercises and programming practice. Simple functions, input, if-else, if-elif-else. | [P: 1-4] | Esercizi1.pdf 20180926_I_en.mp4 20180926_II_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
5. | 30.9 11:00-13:00 | C1 | while, for. | [P: 4-7] | Esercizi2.pdf 20170926.mp4 20180927_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
6. | 3.10 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab exercises. | Prencipe | ||
7. | 7.10 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Functions and recursion. | [P: 8-9] | 20171005.mp4 Esercizi3.pdf EserciziRecursion.pdf 20181004_I_en.mp4 20181004_II_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
8. | 10.10 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab exercises. | De Sensi | ||
9. | 14.10 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Strings, tuples, lists. | [P: 10-14] | 20171011.mp420181010_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
10. | 17.10 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab exercises. | Prencipe | ||
11. | 21.10 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Dictionaries and sets. | [P: 10-14] | Esercizi4.pdf20181011_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
12. | 24.10 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab exercises. | Prencipe | ||
13. | 28.10 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Selection sort and Mergesort, text files, exceptions. | [P: 15-19] | 20171018.mp420181017_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
14. | 31.10 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab exercises. | Prencipe | ||
15. | 04.11 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Binary files, bitwise operators, Debugging. | [P: 15-19] | 20171018.mp4 20181017_en.mp4 Debug.pdf Esercizi5.pdf 20181018_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
16. | 07.11 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Test. | Prencipe | ||
17. | 11.11 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Classes, Object and Overloading. | [P: 20-21] | 20171108.mp420181024_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
18. | 14.11 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab Exercises. | Rossetti | ||
19. | 18.11 11:00-12:00 | C1 | Lesson not held (city closed - flooding). | - | ||
20. | 21.11 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab Exercises. | Prencipe | ||
21. | 25.11 11:00-13:00 | C1 | First Order Logic: Predicates and Quantifiers, Rules of Inference | [T: 1.4-1.6] | 20180924_en.m4v | Rossetti |
22. | 28.11 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab Exercises. | Prencipe | ||
23. | 02.12 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Sets and Set Operations | [T: 2.1-2.2] | 20180925_en.m4v | Rossetti |
24. | 05.12 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab Exercises. | Esercizi6.pdf | Prencipe | |
25. | 09.12 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Inheritance, iterators and generators, command line processing. | [P: 22-24] | Esercizi7.pdf 20171122.mp4 20181025_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
26. | 12.12 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Lab Exercises. | Esercizi13-Classi.pdfEsercizi13-Classi-SketchOfSolutions.zip | Prencipe | |
27. | 27.02 09:00-11:00 | L1 | Exercises on Predicate Logic and Sets | 20181008_en.m4v | Rossetti | |
28. | 28.20 9:00-11:00 | L1 | Functions, Sequences, Set Cardinality, Matrices | [T: 2.3-2.6] | 20181009_en.m4v | Rossetti |
29. | 12.03 9:00-11:00 | Google Meet | Exercises on Functions, Sequences, Set Cardinality. High Order Functions. | 20181015_en.m4v | Rossetti | |
30. | 13.03 9:00-11:00 | Google Meet | Divisibility. Primes. Integer Representation. | [T: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5] | 20181016_en.m4v | Rossetti |
31. | 19.03 9:00-11:00 | Google Meet | Exercises on Primes, Integer Representation, Divisibility. Induction. | [T: 5.1] | 20181022_en.m4v | Rossetti |
32. | 20.03 9:00-11:00 | Google Meet | Strong Induction, Recursion, Structural Induction. | [T: 5.2, 5.3, 5.4] | 20181023_en.m4v | Rossetti |
33. | 26.03 9:00-11:00 | Google Meet | Basic of counting: The Pigeonhole Principle, Permutations, Combinations, Binomial coefficient. | [T: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4] | 20181105_en.m4v | Rossetti |
34. | 27.03 9:00-11:00 | Google Meet | Exercises on induction and recursive programming. | 20181106_en.m4v | Rossetti | |
35. | 02.04 9:00-11:00 | Google Meet | The Unix Shell. Introduction to C: pre-processor, compiler, linker. Structure of a C-program. | [P: 22-24][C: 1-5] | IntroUnix.pdf introUnix_en.pdf 8-ShellEx_en.pdf CLanguage-1.mp4 | Prencipe |
36. | 03.04 9:00-11:00 | Google Meet | Introduction to C: pre-processor, compiler, linker. Structure of a C-program, types, if-for, switch. | [C: 1-5] | intro-C_en.pdf9.1-Cex_en.pdf 9.2-Cex_en.pdf 20181108_en.mp4 CLanguage-2.mp4 | Prencipe |
37. | 09.04 09:00-11:00 | Google Meet | Introduction to C: arrays, functions, scope, pointers and memory. | [C: 1-5] | 20171129.mp4 20181114_en.mp4 20171130.mp4 20181115_en.mp4 CLanguage-3.mp4 Esercizi9_introC_en.zip | Prencipe |
38. | 16.04 09:00-11:00 | Google Meet | Introduction to C: dangling pointers, memory leaks, struct, lists. | [C: 6] | 20181122_en.mp4 20171206.mp4 20181128_en.mp4 CLanguage-4.mp4 Esercizi10_en.zip | Prencipe |
39. | 17.04 09:00-11:00 | Goole Meet | Relations, poset. | [T: 9.1, 9.3, 9.4, 9.6] | 20181112_en.m4v 20181113_en.m4v | Rossetti |
40. | 23.04 09:00-11:00 | Goole Meet | Inclusion-exclusion. Equivalence relations. | [T: 8.5,8.6] | 20181119_en.m4v | Rossetti |
41. | 24.04 09:00-11:00 | Goole Meet | Exercises on relations and posets. Relational operators in Python. | [T: 9.5] | 20181121_en.m4v | Rossetti |
42. | 30.04 09:00-11:00 | Goole Meet | Grammars. | [T: 13.1] | 20181126_en.m4v | Rossetti |
43. | 14.05 09:00-11:00 | Goole Meet | Introduction to C: libraries, strings | [C: 1-6] | 20181129_en.mp4 CLanguage-5 | Prencipe |
2018-2019
Day | Room | Topic | Learning material | Recordings | Instructor | |
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3. | 19.9 16:00-18:00 | M-Lab | Architectures and hardware design. | [A: 1] | 20171113.pdf20171114.mp420180919_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
6. | 03.10 09:00-11:00 | H-Lab | Concepts of Operating Systems I. | Lezione9_IntroduzioneOS.pdfLezione10_FileSystem.pdf20171207.mp4 | Prencipe | |
9.1 | 01.10 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Concepts of Operating Systems I. | Lezione9_IntroduzioneOS_en.pdfLezione10_FileSystem_en.pdf20181001_en.mp4 | Prencipe | |
–. | 02.10 09:00-11:00 | Lesson not held. | ||||
10 | 03.10 16:00-18:00 | M-Lab | Concepts of Operating Systems II. | 20181001_I_en.mp420181001_II_en.mp4 | Prencipe |
36. | 27.11 11:00-13:00 | N1 | Finite-state automata, regular expressions. | [T: 13.3, 13.4] | 20181127_en.m4v | Rossetti |
39. | 03.12 11:00-13:00 | C1 | Regular expressions in Python. Syntax and semantics of C expressions. | [P: 25] | Rossetti | |
40. | 04.12 11:00-13:00 | N1 | A Python interpreter of C expressions. Type checking. | Rossetti | ||
41. | 05.12 16:00-18:00 | M-Lab | Fake Test | 20181205-FakeTest.pdf20181205-FakeTestSoluzione.pdf | Prencipe | |
43. | 10.12 11:00-13:00 | C1 | A Python interpreter of C commands. | Rossetti | ||
44. | 11.12 11:00-13:00 | N1 | A Python interpreter of C commands. Wrap-up on programming languages. | Rossetti |