GISC 4500K - Application Development

Contents

1 Lectures

Discussion on expectations and course materials
1. How to set up Python for geospatial science and computing
2. Homework 1: Mini proposals for weekly in-class projects
Lecture 1: Variables and controls in Python
Lecture 2: Functions and classes in Python
1. Homework 2: Classes
Lecture 3: Recursion and exceptions in Python
Quiz 1 (written)
Class project: WeatherSTEM API project
1. Objective: Develop a simple GUI for plotting recorded variables
2. Lecture 4: API key, HTTP communication using urllib.request
3. Lecture 5: Console version of api_test.py
4. Lecture 6: WeatherStemApi class
5. Lecture 7: PySimpleGUI version of api_test.py
Class project: Slopy burning
1. Objective: Address the bi-directional flow accumulation issue
2. Homework 3: Slopy burning algorithm
3. Lecture 8: Read TIFF and Shapefile
4. Lecture 9: Walking and finding intersecting cells discussion
5. Homework 4: Probability of missing cells when walking on the polyline
6. Lecture 10: Read line geometries
7. Lecture 11: Sort and union lines
8. Homework 5: Length of the polyline
9. Lecture 12: Walk on the polyline
10. Homework 6: Conversion of geospatial coordinates to matrix indices
Quiz 2 (programming)