AP/ITEC 1610 3.00
Introduction to Computer Programming
This is a first course on computer programming using Python. It introduces elementary data, lists, sets, tuples and dictionaries. It also introduces the Python program structure control flow, functions, classes, objects and methods. This course uses simple examples to facilitate the understanding of the programming language. Topics include:
- Introduction to Python programming environment
- Variables and operators
- Data types in Python
- Lists, sets, tuples and dictionaries
- Writing an interactive program
- Programs with branches
- Programs with repetitions
- Functions and modules
- Working with data files
- Writing and using classes