Introduction to Programming

Introduction to programming with Python from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki.

Course info:

• Course provider: University of Helsinki
• ECTS: 5
• Link: https://programming-24.mooc.fi/

Course Contents

1. week:
   • Basics, user input, variables, arithmetic operations and conditional statements.
2. week:
   • Programming terminology, more conditionals, combining conditions and simple loops.
3. week:
   • Loops with conditions, working with strings, advanced loops and defining functions.
4. week:
   • The Visual Studio Code editor, Python interpreter, built-in debugging tool, more functions, lists, definite iteration, print statement formatting and advanced strings and lists.
5. week:
   • More about lists, references, dictionaries and tuples.
6. week:
   • Reading and writing files, handling errors and local and global variables.
7. week:
   • Modules, randomness, times and dates, data processing, creating your own modules and other useful python features.