Explore the nature of programming and how programming a computer is different than using a computer.
Sep 30, 2016
12 min
In this lecture we learn abut how the computer processes and stores programs. We learn about the CPU, Memory, Storage and Input / Output devices are brought together to write a program.
Sep 30, 2016
12 min
We look at how writing programs is just another form of communication. Instead of communicating with another person, we are communicating our ideas to a computer.
Sep 30, 2016
7 min
We look at the basics of the Python language and how we write code in Python to communicate sequential steps, conditional steps and repeated steps.
Sep 30, 2016
12 min
We look at Python's reserved words, how we name and use variables, why we choose meaningful (mnemonic) variable names and how assignment statements function.
Sep 30, 2016
9 min
We look at how we use various numerical and string operations to compute new information and store the new values in variables.
Sep 30, 2016
19 min
The most basic conditional structure is the if statement where we either execute or skip a segment of code based on the results of a logical expression (i.e. asking a question).
Sep 30, 2016
13 min
In this lecture we look at multi-branch if statements and the try-except concept where we can indicate a group of statements to be executed if something goes wrong with a block of statements.
Sep 30, 2016
13 min
We look at how to build our own functions using parameters and arguments as well as how we return results to the code that is calling our functions.
Sep 30, 2016
12 min
We look at how code flows into and out of functions as well has how we pass information into functions and get results returned to us.
Sep 30, 2016
10 min
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