Today, we have a VERY interesting website for learning and teaching yourself in many fields (Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics,…) with a lot of tutorials, with experts in each field.
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Class Summary
In this course you will learn key concepts in computer science and learn how to write your own computer programs in the context of building a web crawler.
What Should I Know?
There is no prior programming knowledge needed for this course. Beginners welcome!
What Will I Learn?
At the end of this course, you will have learned key concepts in computer science and enough Python programming to be able to write programs to solve problems on your own. This course will prepare you to move on to more intermediate-level courses in CS.
Syllabus
Lesson 1: How to Get Started
Your first program: Extracting a link
Lesson 2: How to Repeat
Procedures, decisions (if), loops; finding all of the links on a page
Additional Lesson: How to Solve Problems
Universal techniques for solving programming problems
Lesson 3: How to Manage Data
Lists; crawling the web
Lesson 4: Responding to Queries
Complex data structures; building a reverse index to do searches; networks
Lesson 5: How Programs Run
Reasoning about cost; hash tables (Dictionary)
Lesson 6: How to Have Infinite Power
Recursive definitions; ranking search results
Lesson 7: Where to Go from Here
Past, present, and future of computing; exam
Extended Units
(These units were not part of the original (7-week) course, but have been added to the course.)