Tuesday

Objectives

• Learn about the protocols machines use to communicate with each other
• Learn to use a Python library to interact with an IMAP server
• Learn the basics of the HTTP protocol
• Discover the qualities of a Stack
• Extend our class knowledge to subclassing and composition

Readings

• The Internet: HTTP and HTML
• Raymond Hettinger: The Art of Subclassing
• Inheritance Versus Composition

Review

Concepts

• Network Protocols in Python
  • What is a Protocol?
  • Protocol Examples
  • Using Protocols in Python
  • Wrap Up
• The HTTP Protocol
  • HTTP Characteristics
  • HTTP Requests
  • HTTP Responses
  • HTTP Headers
  • Wrap Up
• Stack
  • Definition
  • Motivation
  • Attributes
  • Operations
• Python Classes: Inheritance v. Composition
  • Inheritance
  • Composition
  • Type-Based Dispatch
  • Wrap Up

Demo

• IMAP protocol interaction
• Class programming basics

Assignments

• Web Protocols Readings
• Implement a Stack in Python
• Socket HTTP Server, Step 1
• Update your LinkedIn Profile
• Today I learned...