How to Program: Computer Science Concepts and Python Exercises

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Course Description

Overview

Learn one of the world's most accessible computer languages, Python 3, from a professor at a top ranked university.

Syllabus

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01: What Is Programming? Why Python?
02: Variables: Operations and Input/Output
03: Conditionals and Boolean Expressions
04: Basic Program Development and Testing
05: Loops and Iterations
06: Files and Strings
07: Operations with Lists
08: Top-Down Design of a Data Analysis Program
09: Functions and Abstraction
10: Parameter Passing, Scope, and Mutable Data
11: Error Types, Systematic Debugging, Exceptions
12: Python Standard Library, Modules, Packages
13: Game Design with Functions
14: Bottom-Up Design, Turtle Graphics, Robotics
15: Event-Driven Programming
16: Visualizing Data and Creating Simulations
17: Classes and Object-Oriented Programming
18: Objects with Inheritance and Polymorphism
19: Data Structures: Stack, Queue, Dictionary, Set
20: Algorithms: Searching and Sorting
21: Recursion and Running Times
22: Graphs and Trees
23: Graph Search and a Word Game
24: Parallel Computing Is Here

Taught by

John Keyser

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