Updated: Monday 27th Feb 2023, 14:19 PT

CSCI120 - Course Outline

Intro to Computer Science and
Programming with Python 3

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is an introduction to 
computer science and computer programming. 
Students will learn the basic concepts and 
terminology of computer science and 
acquire fundamental programming skills in 
the Python 3 programming language. 
No prior programming experience is required.


LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of the course, 
students will be able to:

• Describe fundamental concepts behind computer science.
• Analyze problem specifications.
• Define simple algorithms using pseudocode and flowcharts.
• Construct Python programs from algorithms.
• Describe and apply techniques to debug and test programs.
• Trace the execution of Python programs.
• Define functions.
• Use functions that are built-in or defined in modules.
• Use elementary data structures such as strings and lists.
• Understand and use basic file handling.
• Implement fundamental algorithms such as the linear and binary search.
• Analyze the running time of simple iterative algorithms.
• Document a project.

TEXTBOOK (free)

Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (2nd Ed)

https://www.annedawson.net.html/thinkpython2.pdf 

https://greenteapress.com/thinkpython2/html/index.html 

https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkPython2/tree/master/code

 


COURSE TOPICS AND SCHEDULE

https://www.annedawson.net/CSCI120.html