Week 0: Getting Back into Python

Materials

• Syllabus
• PowerPoint Slides
• Population of Iowa Cities

Topics for the week

• NOTE: All videos in this week were recorded a year ago but are all still valid.

• Overview of the course
  • Course Overview [Video] (13 minutes)
  • Syllabus/Grading Discussion [Video] (11 minutes)
    • Again, from a previous offering. But the only thing "wrong" is the URL listed at the start of the video.

• You Do It (YDI) Activity #1 - Top Ten List
  • Explaining Assignment #1 [Video] (5 minutes)
    • Find and print the ten most populous cities in Iowa from a file of data.

• Pseudocode
  • Get out a piece of paper and a pencil
  • Write down pseudocode for at least one possible solution that you can come up with for the given task
  • Do not watch the following video until you make an honest attempt at the previous YDI
    • Pseudocode Results Discussion [Video] (22 minutes)
      • I strongly enocurage you to watch this video even if the previous YDI made sense to you. Because I put a lot of emphasis onto WHY we want to write pseudocode that will be helpful as we move forward this semester.
    • The Pseudocode I wrote in the Video
• Python Code
  • Convert your pseudocode (or one of the two I wrote with you in the video) to actual, working, Python
  • • Running it might look something like this:
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