Preparatory Course in Programming

English
FORK 2200
0 Credits

Introduction

This preparatory course is intended for students with no prior programming experience and introduces the most basic programming concepts in the Python programming language. The course includes lectures and practice sessions to help students to get familiar with Jupyter, an interactive programming environment to write Python code and create very simple programs.

Course content

Basics of how computers work.
Installation of Python and programming environments (Jupyter).
Basic programming concepts with a focus on Python:
- Basic syntax
- Variables
- Basic data type (strings, numbers and lists)
- Loops and conditional statements
- Functions

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