Course description

This course introduces students to the basics of programming including: i) basic concepts of programming such as variable, expression, statements, control flow, function; ii) basic data types and structures such as strings, lists, files, classes; iii) basic concepts of exceptions, testing and debugging. All algorithms and programming principles in this course are illustrated in Python. This course helps students to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals.