Lecture 1: Introduction

In Lecture 1 we’ll be given you an introduction to python. You will learn:

• How to access and use Google Colab

• How to use arithmetic operators in Python

• How to create amd assign values to variables in python

• How to use comparison operators in python

• How to recognize an Error

The weekly tasks are split up into a series of sequential notebooks. Any of these can be opened below by clicking on them. Some of these are interactive notebooks, where you will run and/or write code in the cells. To open any of the notebooks interactively, first click on the section, then click on the rocket and select “Colab”.

Weekly tasks

• A quick look at the Colab/Jupyter interface
• Getting started - Python objects, basic types, and variables
• INTERACTIVE: Checking object types in Python
• INTERACTIVE: Checking object types in Python - SOLVED
• Python Main Operators
• Arithmetic Operators - Interactive exercises
• Arithmetic Operators - Interactive exercises - SOLVED
• Operations with different types
• Variables - an interactive introduction
• Variables - an interactive introduction - SOLVED
• Swapping Variables
• Comparison operators - interactively introduced
• The string type - interactive
• The string type - interactive - SOLVED
• Type Conversion - A quick interactive intro
• Type Conversion - A quick interactive intro - SOLVED
• Errors
• Summary
• Summary exercises
• Summary exercises - SOLVED