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Introduction to CS and Programming Using Python

计算机科学与 Python 编程导论

An introduction to computer science and programming using Python.

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Subject：Python

Level：Introductory

Suggested stage：Year 1 (inferred)

Public-material edition：2022

Language：English

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Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Strings, input/output, and branching Lecture 3: Iteration Lecture 4: Loops over strings, guess-and-check, and binary Lecture 5: Floats and approximation methods Lecture 6: Bisection search Lecture 7: Decomposition, abstraction, and functions Lecture 8: Functions as objects Lecture 9: Lambda functions, tuples, and lists Lecture 10: Lists and mutability Lecture 11: Aliasing and cloning Lecture 12: List comprehension, testing, and debugging Lecture 13: Exceptions and assertions Lecture 14: Dictionaries Lecture 15: Recursion Lecture 16: Recursion on non-numerics Lecture 17: Python classes Lecture 18: More Python class methods Lecture 19: Inheritance Lecture 20: Fitness tracker OOP example Lecture 21: Timing programs and counting operations Lecture 22: Big Oh and Theta Lecture 23: Complexity class examples Lecture 24: Sorting algorithms Lecture 25: Plotting Lecture 26: List access, hashing, simulations, and wrap-up

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