6.189 A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python, January IAP 2010

Canelake, Sarina

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Canelake, Sarina

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A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python

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Abstract

This 6-unit P/D/F course will provide a gentle introduction to programming using Python for highly motivated students with little or no prior experience in programming computers over the first two weeks of IAP. The course will focus on planning and organizing programs, as well as the grammar of the Python programming language. Lectures will be interactive, featuring in-class exercises with lots of support from the course staff. This class is designed to help prepare students for 6.01 Introduction to EECS I. 6.01 assumes some knowledge of Python upon entering; the course material for 6.189 has been specially designed to make sure that concepts important to 6.01 are covered. This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

Date issued

2010

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71171

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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6.189-JanuaryIAP2010

local: 6.189

local: IMSCP-MD5-f6af4b29cc004360b956f34a7fa3cfe5

Keywords

python, programming, introduction to programming, programming for beginners, variables, operators, control flow, functions, strings, lists, environment diagrams, list comprehensions, hangman, dictionaries, graphics, python graphics, objects, oop, inheritance, tetris, tetris game

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