Introduction to Computer Science 3800-KOG-WI

General introduction to Computer Science.
Introduction to programming with the Python programming language.
Main topics:
- Expressions, including variables and the notion of state of computations.
- Instructions, including loops and reasoning about them.
- Functions, including parameters.
- Data types, including strings, lists and tuples. The notion of references.
- Files.
- Recursive functions.
- Basic algorithms, including examples of searching and sorting.