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Introduction

• What is programming?
• What is not programming?
• what kinds of things can programmers build?

Setting up our programming environment

• Programming Environment
  • Dual-booting Ubuntu
  • Maintaining Ubuntu
  • Configuring Ubuntu for Python 3.3

Python Basics

• Hello World
• Variables, strings, and Numbers
• Lists and Tuples
• Introducing Functions
• If Statements
• While Loops and Input
• Basic Terminal Apps
• Dictionaries
• More Functions
• Classes
• Exceptions
• Testing

Projects in Python

• Text-based Adventure Game
• Video Game
  • 2-dimensional, straight-line motion game
• Visualization
  • see Data is Beautiful for examples
  • Mapping Global Earthquake Activity
• Simple web application
  • for example, a blog that you can make posts to

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