intro_to_cs | 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:

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!