Week 12 agenda and readings -- more Python introduction
09 Nov 2011New topics and terms
We'll start going through these topics, which might continue into next week:
- Logo in Python. See this documentation.
- Objects and instances
- Basic usage of lists
- For loops
- Defining your own functions
Readings
Read chapters 3 and 4 in How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python. Like last time, try to do as many of the exercises as you can throughout and at the end of each chapter.
Chapter 3 introduces the Python library that provides Logo functionality. Chapter 4 shows how to define functions.