Homework for Week 1
Videos
In the role of lectures we will use the videos by Chuck Severance from the University of Michigan.
- Watch the videos in YouTube if you need subtitles.
- Presentations used in videos are linked below the video.
- Full text on the topic can be found in the textbook (check the link below the videos).
The videos below are an introduction to programming. They tell why one might want to learn to program, and what are the basic issues when learning how to program.
Slides in English
Textbook in English
Thonny
Thonny is an IDE for Python. In this course we use Thonny as our main programming editor. Please install it, so you can write programs and do homeworks on your own computer.
Thonny comes with Python built in - there is no need to install Python separately. Only Thonny installer is needed to start learning to program.
Please download and install Thonny from
If you have problems with installation, please look at:
Please download and install Thonny from
If you have problems with installation, please look at:
Quizzes
Each week we will have Moodle quizzes on lecture material.
- Each quiz is worth up to 0.5 points.
- Quiz can be answered several times before the deadline, best attempt counts.
Go to Moodle and solve the quiz under Week 1. That quiz doesn't have a deadline but you can still earn 0.5 points for it. Use your Tartu University account to log into Moodle.
Exercises
There are no programming exercises before the first practice session. We will solve first practice exercises together during the session. Nevertheless, you can try to solve some exercises e.g.: write a program that asks the user for a name and then welcomes the user using this name, to see how Thonny works.