Introduction to Programming with Python
Language: English
Course Description
A general introduction to programming using the Python programming language. Explore key components of problem solving using logically ordered steps and apply them to problems across disciplines. Gain a solid foundation in algorithmic design of programs and implementing them in Python.
Scope and Objectives
Python Coding Summer School is targeting high school students who are interested in Computer Science and coding. Attending such a program not only provides students personal enrichment, but also helps to develop ‘algorithmic thinking’ to handle significant challenges. The Summer Program focuses on teaching the creation of computer algorithm development, numerical computations, data visualization and data analysis using Python.
In a world where computers and coding are having a wider application area every day, computer programming literacy is becoming more and more important. This Summer Program aims at giving students from non-technical majors literacy of computer programming, so that they can use those skills in their professional life to build more efficient solutions to real-world computational problems.
Another aim of this course is to give students the means of breaking down complex problems to smaller parts and solving the overall problem by finding solutions to the small components.
Buket Yüksel
Lecturer Department of Computer Engineering
Buket Yüksel is a Python instructor at Koç University. She has more than 10 years of experience in Python programming language and used it on her research during her Ph.D as well. She has been teaching UNIV199 (Python) and various Computer Engineering courses for 4 years. Her current research is about Object Tracking using Deep Learning. Her research interests include Neural Networks and Reinforcement learning.
Topics to Be Covered
- Variables, constants, operators, expressions.
- Flow control (selection structures).
- Repetitions (loop structures).
- User-defined functions.
- Strings, lists, dictionaries, tuples, nested structures.
- File processing.
- Turtle Graphics.
- Plotting.