New York University Basics of Computing and Programming Free Online Course
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
Syllabus
Course Outline:
- Week 1 – Positional number systems
- Week 2 – Hello World
- Week 3 – Numerical data types and arithmetic expressions
- Week 4 – Branching statements
- Week 5 – Iterative statements [Loops]
- Week 6 – Strings
- Week 7 – Functions
- Week 8 – Lists [Array-based sequences]
- Week 9 – Exam
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