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From Walker White
897 playsThis first video introduces you to the command line, which is a text-based tool for interacting with files and programs. -
From Hannah Lee
338 playsThe Python interactive shell is a program that is run within the command line. For right now, it is the primary way we will use Python. In this video we show how to… -
From Hannah Lee
296 playsPython scripts are files containing pre-written Python code. You can run a Python script even if you do not understand the code inside of it. In this video we show you… -
From Hannah Lee
221 playsPython scripts are files containing pre-written Python code. You can run a Python script even if you do not understand the code inside of it. In this video we show you… -
From Hannah Lee
254 playsBefore we get started with Python we need to define some basic terminology. Those math-like formula that we type into Python are called expressions. Python then uses the… -
From Hannah Lee
199 playsThe most familiar type in Python is int, the set of integers. It supports all of the basic mathematical expressions that you expect, like addition, subtraction,… -
From Hannah Lee
175 playsIntegers are not the only number type in Python. There is also the float type, which is the set of real numbers. Floats can do just about everything that integers So why… -
From Hannah Lee
203 playsThe third basic type is the bool type. It only has two values: True and False. However, as we shall soon see, this type is one of the most important for computer… -
From Hannah Lee
188 playsStrings are the type for text data. We will go into much more depth with this type in a later module. In this video, we just introduce the basics to complete our… -
From Hannah Lee
177 playsIn out introduction of the basic types of Python, we saw a lot of different operations. What happens when we start to mix these operations together? As we see in this… -
From Hannah Lee
181 playsFor the most part, operations are used to combine two expressions of the same type. Adding together two ints is different from adding together two strings. In this video… -
From Hannah Lee
158 playsIn this video we introduce the notion of an algorithm, which is an is a way of describing code (or any process) that is not limited to a specific programming language.… -
From Hannah Lee
938 playsOnce we have an algorithm, it is time to get started writing code. In this video we talk about function stubs, which are how we get started. We like function stubs… -
From Hannah Lee
106 playsIn this video we introduce pseudocode, which is a step-by-step English description of what we want to do. The goal is provide an outline that we convert into Python… -
From Hannah Lee
108 playsWe made very sure that you had learned about testing before you started on your first assignment. That is because we want you testing while you are activtely writing…