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Eight-week introductory computer science course that teaches programming in Python alongside the core data structures and algorithms. Starting from installing Python and writing gcd with variables, conditionals, loops and functions, it moves through types, strings, lists and tuples, the Python memory model, binary search, inductive definitions and elementary sorting, then asymptotic complexity and O() notation, merge sort and quicksort, dictionaries, higher-order functions such as map, filter and list comprehension, exception handling, file input/output and string processing, backtracking with N Queens, scope and nested functions, stacks, queues and heaps, abstract datatypes, classes and objects, linked lists, binary search trees and height-balanced trees, and finally memoization and dynamic programming, with a closing look at C, manual memory management and functional programming. Suitable for learners new to programming who want a rigorous algorithmic foundation.
