This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Computing and Programming. The course will address the following topics, using the Python programming language:
Positional number systems
Hello World
Numerical data types and arithmetic expressions
Branching statements
Iterative statements [Loops]
Strings
Functions
Lists [Array-based sequences]
What you’ll learn
By the end of this course students should be able to:
understand binary number systems and conversion to other number systems
understand hexadecimal number systems and conversion to other number systems
apply numeric and string data types to represent information
apply variables in program development
analyze assignment and apply its components in program development
apply basic I/O operations with different data types
design expressions using arithmetic operations (including understanding their limitations, such as integer truncation, round-off error, division by zero, narrowing and widening conversions, casting, precedence, and standard math library functions)
design expressions using relational operators (including understanding floating point equality)
design expressions using logical operators (including short-circuit)
University of California Davis via Coursera
72 hours of effort required
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