Introduction to Programming and Python

Overview

As part of this session, we will learn the following:

1. Why Learn Programming
2. Computer Architecture - Hardware + Software
3. Brief Peek Into Python
4. Why Do People Use Python?
5. What Can I Do with Python?
6. Why python not R for Machine Learning?
7. Launching Python
8. Elements of Python: Reserved Words, Sentences, Paragraphs
9. Writing a Simple Program
10. Program Flow: Sequential, Conditional, Repeated Steps
11. Variables, Expressions, and Statements
12. User Input, Comments in Python

Recording of Session

Slides

Code Repository for the course on GitHub