elz (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
elz) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
intro_to_cs2009-11-03 04:31 pm
elz) wrote in intro_to_cs2009-11-03 04:31 pm
Early-bird thread
Welcome, everybody! On request, we're going to start with Lecture 1 next Monday, 11/9. However, there's quite a bit of reading associated with the first three lectures - here's what it says at the site:
You may want to wait until you've got more context, but if you want to start in on any reading or material this week, here's a place to talk about it!
Lectures 1-3
- Introduction: Chapter 1 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
- Variables and statements: Chapter 2 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
- Strings: Variables and strings section of Python Programming (also, the
strings section)- Python variables are names: Other languages have "variables", from Code Like A Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
- For PS0: Input/output section of Python Programming
- Conditionals: Chapter 4 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (through section 4.8), and the conditional statements section of Python Programming
- Iteration: Loops section of Python Programming
- Tuples: Tuples section from Dive Into Python and the tuples and sequences section of the Python Tutorial
- More on traversing and slicing strings: Chapter 7 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
You may want to wait until you've got more context, but if you want to start in on any reading or material this week, here's a place to talk about it!
no subject