"Course no. 1174"

Includes glossary, Python commands, Python modules and packages used, and bibliography.

Course Guidebook + 4 discs Lecture 1 -- What is programming? Why Python? Lecture 2 -- Variables: operations and input/output Lecture 3 -- Conditionals and Boolean expressions Lecture 4 -- Basic program development and testing Lecture 5 -- Loops and iterations Lecture 6 -- Files and strings disc 2 Lecture 7 -- Operations with lists Lecture 8 -- Top-down design of a data analysis program Lecture 9 -- Functions and abstraction Lecture 10 -- Parameter passing, scope, and mutable data Lecture 11 -- Error types, systematic debugging, exceptions Lecture 12 -- Python standard library, modules, packages disc. 3 Lecture 13 -- Game design with functions Lecture 14 -- Bottom-up design, turtle graphics, robotics Lecture 15 -- Event-driven programming Lecture 16 -- Visualizing data and creating simulations Lecture 17 -- Classers and object-oriented programming Lecture 18 -- Objects with inheritance and polymorphism disc 4 Lecture 19 -- Data structures: stack, queue, dictionary, set Lecture 20 -- Algorithms: searching and sorting Lecture 21 -- Recursion and running times Lecture 22 -- Graphs and trees Lecture 23 -- Graph search and a word game Lecture 24 -- Parallel computing is here.

Lecturer: John Keyser, Texas A&M University.

Guidebook + DVDs