How to Think like a Programmer with Python

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Start Up

Lecture 1: Introduction to Course

Lecture 2: Introduction to Programming

Lecture 3: Introduction to Python

Lecture 4: Installation of Python on Windows

Chapter 2: Sequence

Lecture 1: Introduction to Algorithms

Lecture 2: Variables or Memory Units

Lecture 3: Types of Data

Lecture 4: Variables in Python

Lecture 5: Rules for Writing Variable Names

Lecture 6: Introduction to Expressions

Lecture 7: Assignment Statement

Lecture 8: Arithmetic Operators and their Precedence

Lecture 9: Arithmetic Operators and their Associativity

Lecture 10: Updating a Value in Variables

Lecture 11: Basic Math Functions

Lecture 12: Type Conversions

Lecture 13: Taking input from user

Lecture 14: Displaying things to user

Lecture 15: Comments

Lecture 16: Introduction to Pseudocode

Lecture 17: Introduction to Flowcharts

Lecture 18: Flowgorithm (A Software)

Lecture 19: Calculate the area of a triangle

Lecture 20: Swap the values in two variables

Lecture 21: Find the remainder and quotient

Lecture 22: Exercises: Sequence

Chapter 3: Selection

Lecture 1: Introduction to Control Structures

Lecture 2: Relational or Comparision Operators

Lecture 3: Simple If statement

Lecture 4: More Examples of Simple If

Lecture 5: If-Else (with Even-Odd Example)

Lecture 6: Bonus Calculator

Lecture 7: Multiple If-Else (elif)

Lecture 8: Student Grade Calculator

Lecture 9: Weekday Name

Lecture 10: Arithmetic Calculator

Lecture 11: Compound Condition

Lecture 12: Find Greatest Number

Lecture 13: Check Valid Age

Lecture 14: Introduction to Nested If

Lecture 15: Leap Year Example

Lecture 16: Find Smallest Number (using Nested If)

Lecture 17: Exercises: Selection

Chapter 4: Iterations

Lecture 1: Introduction to Iterations (Loops)

Lecture 2: For Loop Basics (Part One)

Lecture 3: For Loop Basics (Part Two)

Lecture 4: Print Squares

Lecture 5: Introduction to PyCharm (IDE)

Lecture 6: Print a Pretty Table

Lecture 7: Find Factorial of a Number

Lecture 8: Print Series Horizontally

Lecture 9: Sum of First N Numbers

Lecture 10: Break and Continue

Lecture 11: Find a Prime Number (Using Break)

Lecture 12: Debugging

Lecture 13: Find a Prime Number (Improved)

Lecture 14: Show Specific Numbers

Lecture 15: While Loop

Lecture 16: Looping till Positive Numbers

Lecture 17: Enter Numbers in Valid Range (Solution # 1)

Lecture 18: Enter Numbers in Valid Range (Solution # 2)

Lecture 19: Student Management System

Lecture 20: Random Numbers

Lecture 21: Number Guessing Game

Lecture 22: Nested Loops

Lecture 23: Display Pattern of Numbers

Lecture 24: Display Inverted Pattern of Numbers

Lecture 25: Find First N Prime Numbers

Lecture 26: Exercises: Iterations

Chapter 5: Data Structures

Lecture 1: Introduction to Data Structures

Lecture 2: Basics of List (Part I)

Lecture 3: Basics of List (Part II)

Lecture 4: Basics of List (Part III)

Lecture 5: Collecting Integers Together

Lecture 6: Counting and Averaging Integers

Lecture 7: Find Maximum Number from List

Lecture 8: Calculate Total Days

Lecture 9: Student Management System (Revisited)

Lecture 10: Using Lists as Stacks

Lecture 11: Using Lists as Queues

Lecture 12: Linear Search

Lecture 13: Binary Search

Lecture 14: Bubble Sort

Lecture 15: Two Dimensional List

Lecture 16: List Comprehensions

Lecture 17: Loading and Traversing 2D List

Lecture 18: Loading and Traversing 2D List (Version II)

Lecture 19: Matrix Addition

Lecture 20: Matrix Multiplication

Lecture 21: Tuples

Lecture 22: Dictionaries

Lecture 23: Useful Methods in Dictionaries

Lecture 24: Student Management System (using Dictionaries)

Lecture 25: String Basics (New Format Function)

Lecture 26: String Basics (Part II)