MIT OpenCourseWare 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

Class length: 13 weeks. Start anytime.

Creator: duallain

Status: Under Construction

LECTURE 1

READINGS (optional but suggested)

These readings accompany 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