Explore the nature of programming and how programming a computer is different than using a computer.

In this lecture we learn abut how the computer processes and stores programs. We learn about the CPU, Memory, Storage and Input / Output devices are brought together to write a program.

Installing Python 3 on a Macintosh

We look at how we use various numerical and string operations to compute new information and store the new values in variables.

Code Walkthrough: Exercise 2.2

Code Walkthrough: Exercise 2.3

The most basic conditional structure is the if statement where we either execute or skip a segment of code based on the results of a logical expression (i.e. asking a question).

In this video we look at multi-branch if statements and the try-except concept where we can indicate a group of statements to be executed if something goes wrong with a block of statements.

We look at how we sort lists, dictionaries, and lists of tuples in Python.