Programmazione Avanzata

The fall examination session will be only in presence. The exam on the 20th of September will be in room δ at 10am.

The fall examination session will be only in presence. The exam on the 6th of September will be in room δ at 10am.

Since the 1st of the December the lectures will be only on discord. The lectures will be based on the flip classroom method.

I made the solutions to the exercises done in the hands-on session available on a SVN repository. Check in the hands-on session how to access them.

Lessons start on Monday, October 5th at 2pm. **All Mondays the lecture will start at 2pm.

This year all the lectures and laboratories activities will be on-line.

We will use:

• You Tube for the live streaming of the lectures
• Discord for a lively (and vocal) interaction during the classes and
• Telegram for the official communications and questions

How to Participate

First, register to the Dedicated Telegram Channel available at:

Please use /askme to link your nickname to your real name and your id. All the nicknames not associated to a real name and id will be kicked and banned on the second attempt.

On the Telegram channel you will find the invite for the discord channel (pinned on top). Before each class I will publish the link to the live streaming on the channel.

Second, use the invite pinned in the telegram channel to link with the discord channel. Please use your real name/surname. All users that do not use their real name will be kicked and banned on the second attempt. You can set the name displayed on the discord channel by right clicking on your user icon on the right column, then "Change Nickname."

Discord will be used to have a voice interaction during the class. You have to move to your virtual classroom if you are enrolled to more than one course. All the students start with the microphone muted and the channel use the push-to-talk modality. Configure properly your account (in Settings→Voice and Video) and choose a easy to use key combination.

Last, the link to the live streaming will be published on the telegram channel. It will be different for each class and unlisted, so the link is the only way to join. The comments on you tube will be disabled and the only way to do questions will be in the discord channel during the live sessions, the discord channel will also be used by me to ask questions to the participants. Again, it is needed to use your real name when attending the class (for obvious reasons).

The exams will be the following

Note that, day, time and place are purely indicative. Details will follow as the exam approaches.

Note. to access both the midterms and the exams you have to be enrolled to them through the SIFA.

Requirements

The platform used for the exams is Microsoft Teams.

• You need to have an account on that platform, if your account is associated with an email address different than «name.surname@studenti.unimi.it» drop me a message with the correct email address.
• You trivially need a computer and an internet connection powerful enough to grant screen and camera sharing without any lag during the whole exam.
• You also need a smartphone or other camera technology to take a shoot at the shared screen and the skill to upload the picture on your pc to show it.
• You need an identification document.

If any of these requirements is not fulfilled we can't proceed with your examination.

Examination Conducting

We are examining one student at a time in the order planned for the session you are enrolled to.

• The students have to wait our call and be ready to get it since the beginning of the first exam of the first day, e.g., from 1 p.m., even if he/she is the last one of the whole examination session (the same for the following days). If the student does not reply to the call he/she will be signed as absent and he/she will lose the opportunity to be examined.
• The exam is a live code session. Be prepared with your preferred development environment (but this can't include, google, stack overflow et similia). Zeal/Dash is preferred for the documentation.
• There will be a filter exercise at the beginning of the exam. You fail your examination if you can't solve the filter exercise in 10 minutes. Note that the filter exercise is an exercise we solved in 1 minute. A solution for the filter exercise is a complete program doing what you are asked to do.
• If you pass the filter exercise, there will be one exercise to solve. You fail the examination if you can't solve the proposed exercise in 1 hour/1 hour and a quarter. Note that we should be convinced that you can solve and code it; a complete working solution is preferred but not necessarily needed.
• The examination for a single student last from 10 minutes to 1 hours at most.

Examination of the 2nd of February

Note that all the students are summoned on the first day and we will examine the students in the listed order. When one student ends his/her exam we will start examining the next one in the list. If you don't reply to our call you will signed as absent. The daily time slot will be completely used examining as much as possible students. In the worst case, all of you will have the examination on the first day. I will put a note here when we will stop with the examination, and I will update the program accordingly with the new date. Please, read the mandatory requirements and the examination conducting above.

Note that the order can change to accommodate your requests when possible, e.g., because you have another exam at the same time.

Examination of the 26th of February

Note that all the students are summoned on the first day and we will examine the students in the listed order. When one student ends his/her exam we will start examining the next one in the list. If you don't reply to our call you will signed as absent. The daily time slot will be completely used examining as much as possible students. In the worst case, all of you will have the examination on the first day. I will put a note here when we will stop with the examination, and I will update the program accordingly with the new date. Please, read the mandatory requirements and the examination conducting above.

Note that the order can change to accommodate your requests when possible, e.g., because you have another exam at the same time.

Examination of the 2nd of July

Note that all the students are summoned on the first day and we will examine the students in the listed order. When one student ends his/her exam we will start examining the next one in the list. If you don't reply to our call you will signed as absent. The daily time slot will be completely used examining as much as possible students. In the worst case, all of you will have the examination on the first day. I will put a note here when we will stop with the examination, and I will update the program accordingly with the new date. Please, read the mandatory requirements and the examination conducting above.

Note that the order can change to accommodate your requests when possible, e.g., because you have another exam at the same time.

Examination of the 22nd of July

Note that all the students are summoned on the first day and we will examine the students in the listed order. When one student ends his/her exam we will start examining the next one in the list. If you don't reply to our call you will signed as absent. The daily time slot will be completely used examining as much as possible students. In the worst case, all of you will have the examination on the first day. I will put a note here when we will stop with the examination, and I will update the program accordingly with the new date. Please, read the mandatory requirements and the examination conducting above.

Note that the order can change to accommodate your requests when possible, e.g., because you have another exam at the same time.

The office hours for the students are: Thursdays from 14:30 to 16:30 on discord or teams; an appointment is needed.

Slides.

• Python's Overview (PDF Lecture 1).
• Python's Types and Recursion (PDF Lecture 2).
• Comprehensions (PDF Lecture 3).
• Functional Programming (PDF Lecture 4).
• Closures and Generators (PDF Lecture 5).
• Dynamic Typing (PDF Lecture 6).
• Object-Oriented Programming in Python Pt. 1 (PDF Lecture 7).
• Object-Oriented Programming in Python Pt. 2 (PDF Lecture 8).
• Iterators (PDF Lecture 9).
• Modules and Packages (PDF Lecture 10).
• Managed Attributes (PDF Lecture 13).
• Decorators (PDF Lecture 14).
• Metaclasses (PDF Lecture 15).

Suggested Books.

• Jennifer Campbell, Paul Gries, Jason Montojo, and Greg Wilson. Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python. The Pragmatic Bookshelf, second edition, 2009.
• Mark Lutz. Learning Python. O'Reilly, third edition, November 2007.
• Mark Pilgrim. Dive into Python 3. Apress*, 2009.
• Anthony Shaw. CPython Internals: Your Guide to the Python 3 Interpreter. Real Python. 2020.

Exercises to do in the hands-on lessons (room Ω).

• Exercises on introductive python (Lab01) (VLab01) Solutions (Sols-Lab01)
• Esercises on functional programming (Lab02) (VLab02)
• Exercises on object-oriented programming (Lab03) and iterators (Lab04) (VLab03)
• Exercises on decorators, meta-classes (Lab06) and recap (Lab07) (VLab04)

Note, the solutions to the exercises we did in the hands-on sessions are available in a SVN repository accessible at:

The credentials to access the repository are the same you use to access the password protected content on this page.

The exam is written (at the computer). Each session proposes two exercises. At the exam, it is possible to use only the available online documentation: No books, no slides.

Look on the proper section for the changes related to the COVID19 situation.