Schedule of Classes

Session 1: Introduction to Python

Readings (Recommended)

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
• The Python Tutorial
  • Chapter 1: Whetting Your Appetite
  • Chapter 2: Using the Python Interpreter
  • Chapter 3: An Informal Introduction to Python

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Session 2: Variables, Expressions, Statements

Readings (Recommended)

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
  • Chapter 2: Variables, expressions and statements
• Interactive Python: variables, expressions,and statements
• Tutorialspoint
  • Page 4: Basic syntax
  • Page 5: Variable types
  • Page 6: Basic operators

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Session 3: Conditional statements

Readings (Recommended)

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
  • Chapter 4: Condtionals and recursion
• Decisions and selection
• Tutorialspoint

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Session 4: Loop structure

Readings (Recommended)

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
  • Chapter 6: Iteration
• Iteration
• Tutorialspoint: Loops

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Session 5: Lists, tuples, and dictionaries

Readings (Recommended)

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
  • Chapter 8: Lists
  • Chapter 9: Tuples
  • Chapter 10: Dictionaries
• Lists
• Tuples
• Dictionaries
• Tutorialspoint: Lists
• Tutorialspoint: Tuples
• Tutorialspoint: Dictionaries

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Session 6: Functions and parameters

Readings (Recommended)

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
  • Chapter 3: Functions
• Functions

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Session 7: String operations

Readings (Recommended)

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
  • Chapter 7: Strings
• String Formatting

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Session 8: Files and modules

Readings (Recommended)

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
  • Chapter 11: Files and exceptions
• TutorialPoint: Python Files I/O
• TutorialPoint: Python Modules
• Files
• Python modules

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