MCS/PHY 186: Introductory Programming

SUNY Cortland

Fall 2017

• Instructor
  • Dr. Douglas Armstead
  • Bowers 127
  • 607 753-2919 or x2919
  • douglas.armstead@cortland.edu
  
  
• Meeting
  • Sperry 103
  • Day: Tuesday and Thursday
  • Time: 10:05-11:20am
  • Course Syllabus
  
  
• Text
  • Title: Think Python
  • Author: Allen Downey
  • Edition: 2nd
  • ISBN: 9781491939369
  • Link to free version

• Homework
• Course Supplementals
  • You may wonder why a book about python has a parrot on the cover, why spam appears in it and why there are songs about lumberjacks. This is because of the author's enjoyment of Monty Python a 1970s British comedy group. To be in on the joke you might consider watching one or more of the following skits: Spam, Parrot sketch, Lumberjack Song.
  • The figure 8 orbit you search out in the vPython exercise is related to the Free-return trajectory that was used to send the first Astronauts to the moon.