Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The class will use the Python™ programming language.

Lec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
Lecture 1: Goals of the course; what is computation; introduction to data types, operators, and variables

Lec 2 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
Lecture 2: Operators and operands; statements; branching, conditionals, and iteration

Lec 3 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
Lecture 3: Common code patterns: iterative programs

Lec 4 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
Lecture 4: Decomposition and abstraction through functions; introduction to recursion

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