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Deborah Ogunribido is a senior in the College of Human Ecology majoring in Global and Public Health Sciences on the pre-med track. She is passionate about equitable healthcare access and medical…

Ari Mack, Organization Development Consultant, and Michelle Artibee provide some tips and advice on maintaining healthy relationships among co-workers and colleagues. Watch the full Interview here:…

Kristi Taylor, Education Director for the Tompkins County Advocacy Center discusses the prevalence of domestic violence and intimate partner violence. Watch the rest of the conversation here:…

It looks like quicksort has solved our performance problems. However, we should not be so hasty. In this video, we look at the real performance for quicksort, and why it is not perfect. We also talk…

In the previous video, we saw that nested loops are causing our sorting algorithms to be slow. To speed things up, we need to get rid of one of these loops. To do that, we will need a special…

In the previous video we saw that insertion sort is not an ideal sorting algorithm. In this video we try our hand at another algorithm: selection sort. This is another simple algorithm that may be…

In this video, we look at the different ways we can search a list for an element. In doing so, we see that it helps a lot for our lists to be sorted. Hence that will be our focus for the rest of this…

After the last video, try-except looks less like an if-else statement and more like an if-elif-else statement. As we see in this video, this has profound effects on how errors interact with the call…

Sometimes we absolutely need to enforce all of our preconditions, and we cannot live with the compromises of the previous video. In this video we show how to use top-down design to give us more…

Preconditions can get really complicated, and sometimes it is unclear how to enforce all of the preconditions. In this video we talk about why it is okay to break up a precondition and…

A good testing plan has many, many test cases, and it can be really tedious to keep testing a function. That is why it would be ideal if we could automate the process. In this video, we introduce the…

Now that you know why specifications are so important, it is time to write them. We have a very specific format that we want for our specifications, which is detailed in this video.

Strings have a fundamental property that is not present in the other types so far. You can cut up a string into smaller bits or substrings. This is know as string slicing, and it is the focus of the…