Programming for Information Professionals

Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 5,900 words

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Vinge, Vernor. “Software Archaeology.” In A Deepness in the Sky, 183–86. New York: Tor, 1999. PDF.

   1,400 words
2. Quéru, Jean-Baptiste. “Dizzying but Invisible Depth,” October 15, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20150417195936/https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe.

   1,200 words
3. Butterick, Matthew. “GitHub Copilot Investigation,” 2022. https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com.

   2,300 words
4. Recurse Center. “Social Rules,” n.d. https://www.recurse.com/social-rules.

   1,000 words

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 72 minutes

Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 30,100 words

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. Microsoft, “Learn Visual Studio Code in 7min.”

   View. 7 minutes
   Viewing tips

   You can follow along at https://vscode.dev.

2. Microsoft, “Using Git with Visual Studio Code.”

   View. 7 minutes

3. David Gotz, “Introduction to computers and programming.”

   1. View part 1.
   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.

   58 minutes

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Ford, Paul. “What Is Code?” Bloomberg Businessweek, June 11, 2015. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/.

   29,400 words
   Reading tips

   This is a very good but very long article, with a number of interesting interactive features. It is written in a style that is intended to be entertaining—and for many native English readers it will be entertaining—but that style may make it a difficult read for non-native readers. I recommend the whole thing, but if you are pressed for time, just read parts 2 (”Let’s Begin”) and 3 (“Why Are Programmers So Intense About Languages?”), and then look at the table of contents and read whatever other sections look interesting.

2. Recurse Center. “Pair Programming.” In User’s Manual, n.d. https://www.recurse.com/manual#sub-sec-pairing.

   700 words
3. Optional

   Böckeler, Birgitta, and Nina Siessegger. “On Pair Programming,” January 15, 2020. https://martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html.

   9,600 words
4. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Introduction to Computers and Programming.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   9,400 words

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 86 minutes

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. David Gotz, “Programming basics: types, variables, operators.”

   1. View part 1.
   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.
   4. View part 4.
   5. View part 5.
   6. View part 6.
   7. View part 7.

   86 minutes
   Viewing tips

   When watching these videos, try evaluating the example Python code in bpython. (If you don’t know how to run bpython, ask a question on Zulip!)

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Input, Processing, and Output.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   21,700 words

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 154 minutes

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. David Gotz, “Decision structures.”

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   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.

   34 minutes

2. David Gotz, “Repetition.”

   1. View part 1.
   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.
   4. View part 4.
   5. View part 5.
   6. View part 6.
   7. View part 7.

   120 minutes

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Decision Structures and Boolean Logic.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   14,700 words
2. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Repetition Structures.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   13,500 words

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 131 minutes

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. David Gotz, “Functions.”

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   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.
   4. View part 4.
   5. View part 5.
   6. View part 6.

   131 minutes

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Functions.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   23,800 words

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 76 minutes

Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 8,600 words

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. David Gotz, “Practicing software design: abstraction and decomposition.”

   1. View part 1.
   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.

   76 minutes

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Polya, George. How to Solve It. Princeton University Press, 1988. PDF.

   8,600 words
2. Optional

   Brown, Barry. “The next Line: Understanding Programmers’ Work.” TeamEthno-Online, no. 2 (2006): 25–33. PDF.

   5,800 words

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 113 minutes

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. David Gotz, “Working with files.”

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   2. View part 2.

   52 minutes

2. David Gotz, “Exceptions.”

   1. View part 1.
   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.
   4. View part 4.

   61 minutes

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Files and Exceptions.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   17,100 words

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 108 minutes

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. David Gotz, “Lists.”

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   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.
   4. View part 4.
   5. View part 5.
   6. View part 6.
   7. View part 7.

   108 minutes

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Lists and Tuples.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   18,100 words

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 114 minutes

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. David Gotz, “Lists and tuples.”

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   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.
   4. View part 4.
   5. View part 5.

   67 minutes

2. David Gotz, “Strings.”

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   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.
   4. View part 4.

   47 minutes

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Lists and Tuples.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   18,100 words
2. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “More about Strings.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   9,400 words

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 115 minutes

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. David Gotz, “Dictionaries (and sets).”

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   7. View part 7.
   8. View part 8.

   115 minutes

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Dictionaries and Sets.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   16,200 words

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Shaw, Ryan. Opening URLs on the Web, n.d. https://github.com/programming-for-info-pros/notebooks.
2. Shaw, Ryan. Processing JSON, n.d. https://github.com/programming-for-info-pros/notebooks.

Total amount of required viewing for this meeting: 104 minutes

📺 To view before this meeting:

1. David Gotz, “Recursion.”

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   2. View part 2.
   3. View part 3.
   4. View part 4.
   5. View part 5.

   104 minutes

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Optional

   Gaddis, Tony. “Recursion.” In Starting Out with Python, 4th global edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. PDF.

   5,500 words