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Video Lecture (required)
It was a rainy day, so I recorded another screencast. :) This week's video
lecture is a brief introduction to Python, with a focus on the programming
language primatives from the textbook. Here is a
pdf version of the slides and the
example program
featured in the video. Don't forget to click on all the links!
Questions & Exercises
Some of these questions will be on the next quiz. Remember the answers are in the back of the book.
- Sec 5.1 : 1, 4
- Sec 5.2 : 2, 4
- Sec 5.3 : 3, 4
Additional Clips (recommended)
If you haven't yet heard of 
Code.org, you should really check out their website. They just launched in
2013. Here is their 5-minute overview video explaining why "every student in
every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science."