New York University Free Online Course – Basics of Computing and Programming
This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Computing and Programming.
Estimated 9 weeks / 6–8 hours per week
About this course
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)
- design selection statements (including nested selection)
- design repetition statements (including count-controlled versus event-controlled, sentinel-controlled)
- design simple data structures using lists (including using loops with lists and multi-dimensional lists