Weekly Course Schedule – Spring 2026

IS430 A-Section - Foundations of Information Processing

Meets Wednesday Evenings Online

Week 12 (April 6 – April 12)

Wednesday, April 8 (7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M., Zoom) Class Session 11
Topics	Jupyter Notebooks
In-Class Activities	Review solutions to prior week's coding assignments Discussion: Developing a Project Concept
Required Readings	McKinney – Chapter 2 [sections 2.1 through 2.2] (IPython and Jupyter Notebooks) Rule A, Birmingham A, Zuniga C, Altintas I, Huang S-C, Knight R, et al. (2019) Ten simple rules for writing and sharing computational analyses in Jupyter Notebooks. PLoS Comput Biol 15(7): e1007007.
Optional Readings	Driscoll, M. (n.d.). Jupyter Notebook: An Introduction. Real Python.
Required Recordings	Lecture Video: (Python) Jupyter Notebooks Tutorial Video: Python Program Design For Jupyter Notebooks Tutorial Video: Processing CSV Files with Python
Other Resources	Slides for Jupyter Notebooks Lecture PyCharm Project: Demonstrations for Jupyter Notebook Unit Slides for Python Program Design for Jupyter Notebooks Cone, M. (2025). The Markdown Guide Grus, J. (2018). I don't like notebooks. Presentation at O'Reilly JupyterCon. YouTube.
Class Discussion Prep	Developing a Project Concept Going forward, you might expect to be involved in computing projects. These include the Final Project for this course, projects that you might encounter in your "day job", or projects that you might encounter while pursuing personal interests and hobbies. Generally, these projects experiences are different from the work that you have been doing during your coding assignments. They are bigger, they have more parts, their parts are interrelated (typically by some kind of workflow), and the often require you to learn some programming tasks that are new. These projects are potentially more rewarding and motivating than the coding assignments for this course in that they can allow you to reach a satisfying goal that you choose. In the tutorials for this week's coding assignment, I will be walking you through the process of conceptualizing and executing a project in which you will be organizing existing research data files for submission to a university library research data repository. More on that soon. In the meantime, I would like you to think of other project possibilities that possibly might be built around skills and techniques covered in later chapters of the Sweigart text. Please give this some thought before our class session so that you can contribute your ideas to our breakout discussion.

Sunday, April 12 (10:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M., Zoom) Optional Session
Lab Session	On Sunday mornings from 10:00 AM till 11:00 AM, I will be holding an optional Lab Session using Zoom. Please drop by to ask a question, to discuss solutions to previous assignments, to get help with the current assignment, to discuss the final project, or just to say hello. Please use a headset while participating.

Sunday, April 12, @ 11:55 P.M.
Weekly Assignments Deadline

Coding Assignments Due

Jupyter Notebook Assignment
Description: Please see the Instructions document below for assignment details.
Submit to: Jupyter Notebook Assignment