CS004
Intro to Programming 1: Python
Faculty
Igor Slinko
Computer Vision Engineer at SportTotal.tv
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Skills you’ll learn
Overview
In today’s world, the ability to code is very important. This course is going to be teaching you the basics of programming.
Learning highlights
- Be familiar with the syntax of Python
- Model a problem using code
- Comprehend control flows and conditional statements
- Use loops to solve repetitive tasks
- Work with simple data structures such as lists, sets and dictionaries
- Write functions to increase the readability, modularity and reusability of your code
- Read, write and create files in Python
- Be able to use different encodings and understand how they work
- Write clear code
Course outline
15 classes
Session 1
Variables, operators and built-in types
Session 2
- Basic Data Structures 1
- Tuples, lists, strings and sets
Session 3
Slicing in lists and strings
Session 4
Practice session
Session 5
- Basic Data Structures 2
- Dicts and sets
- Conditional statements and loops
Session 6
Practice session
Session 7
Functions
Session 8
Positional and named arguments in functions
Session 9
Files: open, close, read and write
Session 10
Practice session
Session 11
Encodings: ASCII, Unicode, UTF-8
Session 12
Practice session
Session 13
Modules in Python
Session 14
Practice session
Session 15
Final Exam
Methodology
Each day is provided with some new information about Python functionality. Some days will consist almost entirely of practice. You will be given a lot of problems to solve. In addition, every day you will solve homework, for which you will need to allocate 2-3 hours. And we will have 2 small projects for the weekend. All assignments are checked with comments from the teacher.
Grading
Ex. Samsung AI Center, Yandex, VK, Brickit.app, OneSoil Master of Computer Science at MIPT
Igor Slinko obtained a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at MIPT (Moscow). After that, he worked as C++ and Python developer at Yandex. Several years later he turned his attention to Data Science and Computer Vision. He switched to a researcher position at Mail.ru, and also started teaching Machine Learning at HSE (Moscow). Then he became team lead at a newly developed Samsung AI Center, where he developed Computer Vision algorithms in Robotics. He also collaborated with Michael Romanov to create an open course called "Neural Networks and Computer Vision" which amassed an audience of 50k students.
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Intro to Programming 1: Python
by Igor Slinko
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Nov 29 - Dec 17, 2021
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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