Lectures

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

Local variables
Local variables within functions
Functions
Writing (rather than just calling) functions
More fun with lists
List comprehensions and the in keyword
Testing
How can we check our code’s behaviour?
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
Organization and control Flow
Valid names and non-linear control flow
Variables
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?