Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

Fall 2016

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Engineering
- Computer Science
  - Algorithms and Data Structures
  - Programming Languages

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Lecture Videos

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Lecture Videos

Lecture 1: What is Computation?

Lecture 2: Branching and Iteration

Lecture 3: String Manipulation, Guess and Check, Approximations, Bisection

Lecture 4: Decomposition, Abstraction, and Functions

Lecture 5: Tuples, Lists, Aliasing, Mutability, and Cloning

Lecture 6: Recursion and Dictionaries

Lecture 7: Testing, Debugging, Exceptions, and Assertions

Lecture 8: Object Oriented Programming

Lecture 9: Python Classes and Inheritance

Lecture 10: Understanding Program Efficiency, Part 1

Lecture 11: Understanding Program Efficiency, Part 2

Lecture 12: Searching and Sorting

Course Info

Instructors

Departments

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

Fall 2016

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Engineering
- Computer Science
  - Algorithms and Data Structures
  - Programming Languages

Learning Resource Types

Problem Sets

Lecture Notes

Lecture Videos

Programming Assignments with Examples

Download Course

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