🐍 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python

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Week 1 - Python Basics

• Lecture 1 – Introduction to Python
• Lecture 2 – Core elements of programs
• Problem Set 1:
  • Problem 1
  • Problem 2
  • Problem 3

Week 2 - Simple Programs

• Lecture 3 – Simple Algorithms
• Lecture 4 – Functions
• Problem Set 2:
  • Problem 1: Paying Debt off in a Year - balance
  • Problem 2: Paying Debt off in a Year - min monthly payment
  • Problem 3: Using Bisection Search to Make the Program Faster

Week 3 - Structured Types

• Lecture 5 – Tuples and Lists
• Lecture 6 – Dictionaries
• Problem Set 3:
  • Problem 1: Is the Word Guessed
  • Problem 2: Printing Out the User's Guess
  • Problem 3: Printing Out all Available Letters
  • Problem 4: The Game

Week 4 - Good Programming Practices

• Lecture 7 - Testing and Debugging
• Lecture 8 - Exceptions and Assertions
• Problem Set 4:
  • Problem 1: Word Scores
  • Problem 2: Dealing with Hands
  • Problem 3: Valid Words
  • Problem 4: Hand Length
  • Problem 5: Playing a Hand
  • Problem 6: Playing a Game
  • Problem 7: You and your Computer

Week 5 - Object Oriented Programming

• Lecture 9 - Classes and Inheritance
• Lecture 10 - An Extended Expample
• Problem Set 5:
  • Problem 1: Build the Shift Dictionary and Apply Shift
  • Problem 2: PlaintextMessage
  • Problem 3: CiphertextMessage
  • Problem 4: Decrypt a Story
  • complete problem

Week 6 - Algorithmic Complexity

• Lecture 11 - Computational Complexity
• Lecture 12 - Searching and Sorting Algorithms
• Problem Set 6

Week 7 - Plotting

• Lecture 13 - Plotting