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Introduction to CS and Programming using Python

Dr. Ana Bell · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

This subject is aimed at students with little to no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, feel justifiably confident in their ability to write simple programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The class will use the Python 3 programming language.

Lectures

Lecture Videos

  1. Lecture 1: Introduction to CS and Programming Using Python Video
  2. Lecture 2: Strings, Input/Output, and Branching Video
  3. Lecture 3: Iteration Video
  4. Lecture 4: Loops over Strings, Guess-and-Check, and Binary Video
  5. Lecture 5: Floats and Approximation Methods Video
  6. Lecture 6: Bisection Search Video
  7. Lecture 7: Decomposition, Abstraction, and Functions Video
  8. Lecture 8: Functions as Objects Video
  9. Lecture 9: Lambda Functions, Tuples, and Lists Video
  10. Lecture 10: Lists and Mutability Video
  11. Lecture 11: Aliasing and Cloning Video
  12. Lecture 12: List Comprehension, Functions as Objects, Testing, and Debugging Video
  13. Lecture 13: Exceptions and Assertions Video
  14. Lecture 14: Dictionaries Video
  15. Lecture 15: Recursion Video
  16. Lecture 16: Recursion on Non-numerics Video
  17. Lecture 17: Python Classes Video
  18. Lecture 18: More Python Class Methods Video
  19. Lecture 19: Inheritance Video
  20. Lecture 20: Fitness Tracker Object-Oriented Programming Example Video
  21. Lecture 21: Timing Programs and Counting Operations Video
  22. Lecture 22: Big Oh and Theta Video
  23. Lecture 23: Complexity Classes Examples Video
  24. Lecture 24: Sorting Algorithms Video
  25. Lecture 25: Plotting Video
  26. Lecture 26: List Access, Hashing, Simulations, and Wrap-Up Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Teacher
Dr. Ana Bell
Term
Fall 2022
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, Engineering, Languages and linguistics
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Dr. Ana Bell. Introduction to CS and Programming using Python. Fall 2022. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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