Lectures

The course’s lecture content (slides and notes) will be posted here.

Questions and next steps
Time to answer your questions, plus suggestions of where to go from here
Files and pickles
Storing data in files
Real numbers
How computers store fixed- and floating-point numbers
Integer representation
How computers store integers in bits
Top-down design
How to think about solving big problems
Dictionaries
Yet another helpful type of collection
Sets
Yet another helpful type of collection
Tuples
Another helpful type of collection
Packages and plotting
Packages, licensing, numpy and matplotlib
Objects and methods
Objects, their methods and how we call them
Modules
Organizing Python code in multiple files
Recursion
Recursive functions that use recursive functions
Testing
How can we check our code’s behaviour?
Local variables
Local variables within functions
Functions
Writing (rather than just calling) functions
More fun with lists
List comprehensions and the in keyword
Slices
Slicing and dicing Python iterables
Ranges and lists
The range() function and the list data structure
Iteration and strings
The for loop, iterating over strings
Loops
Repeating things over and over and over and over and …
If statements
Examples of working with control flow
Identifiers and Control Flow
Valid names and non-linear control flow
Variables
Variables in programming and how they differ from mathematics
Further expressions
Variables in programming and how they differ from mathematics
Logic
Propositional logic
Functions
A few more details about expressions and how we evaluate them, plus our first use of functions
Expressions
How are expressions in programming similar to (and different from) those in mathematics?
Introduction
Why study programming? How can I succeed? How do we solve problems with software?