Basics of Computing and Programming

Online Course Highlights

New York University via Edx
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Length: 9 Weeks
Effort: 6–8 hours per week
Skill Level: Mixed
Language: English

This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Computing and Programming. The course will address the following topics, using the Python programming language:

Positional number systems
Hello World
Numerical data types and arithmetic expressions
Branching statements
Iterative statements [Loops]
Strings
Functions
Lists [Array-based sequences]

What you’ll learn

By the end of this course students should be able to:

understand binary number systems and conversion to other number systems
understand hexadecimal number systems and conversion to other number systems
apply numeric and string data types to represent information
apply variables in program development
analyze assignment and apply its components in program development
apply basic I/O operations with different data types
design expressions using arithmetic operations (including understanding their limitations, such as integer truncation, round-off error, division by zero, narrowing and widening conversions, casting, precedence, and standard math library functions)
design expressions using relational operators (including understanding floating point equality)
design expressions using logical operators (including short-circuit)
design selection statements (including nested selection)
design repetition statements (including count-controlled versus event-controlled, sentinel-controlled)
design simple data structures using lists (including using loops with lists and multi-dimensional lists

Syllabus

Course Outline:

Week 1 – Positional number systems
Week 2 – Hello World
Week 3 – Numerical data types and arithmetic expressions
Week 4 – Branching statements
Week 5 – Iterative statements [Loops]
Week 6 – Strings
Week 7 – Functions
Week 8 – Lists [Array-based sequences]
Week 9 – Exam

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