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Amazing Little Ecosystem ([personal profile] winterthunder) wrote in [community profile] intro_to_cs2010-01-03 03:34 pm
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Lecture 1

All right! Computer science skillz, here we come!

If you haven't already, take a look over at this page and make sure you have the correct version of Python installed on your computer. Remember, if you install 3.0 the code you write in this course will not be compatible.

Lecture 1 video is here, and covers definitions and other introductory things. In an ideal world, I would have watched it already, but it's currently playing in another window while I multi-task, and I didn't want to wait any longer to put this post up. It seems basic thus far, but I shall edit this post if I come up with any questions. Also, feel free to comment with anything that doesn't make sense to you. We have over 25 people following along and we're all beginners, so we should be helping each other out. :)

Edit 1:

Ok, I've watched the lecture, and aside from not being able to see what he's typing on the computer screen, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm going to take some time over the next few days to dig into the readings and see if I can't get an idea of what was on the screen.
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[personal profile] dodificus 2010-01-04 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
You actually need to open a new window to write your code and then run it. This is where I got stuck!

Thank you *very* much for that, I'd hate to have gotten stumped right at the very beginning:)
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[personal profile] smc1225 2010-01-05 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem. I actually got frustrated and gave up because I couldn't get it to run correctly. Then I gave it one more shot and found the link above or I probably wouldn't have continued.