Welcome

Welcome to the lecture notes for UMD’s INST126!

I (Joel Chan) am experimenting with hosting lectures notes in Jupyter Book format, for enhanced usability and searchability.

This is an ongoing work in progress. The currently posted notes are:

• 1: What is programming? What is computational thinking?
• 2a: Expressions
• 2b: Variables
• 3: Functions
• 4: Conditionals
• 5: Lists
• 6: Iteration
• 7: Strings
• 8: Dictionaries
• 9: Files
• 10: Pandas for data analysis with Python: Part 1
• 11: Pandas for data analysis with Python: Part 2
• Problem Formulation
• Debugging and Help-Seeking
• Help-Seeking Template
• Sample program(s): course code filtering
• Practice: Conditionals
• Practice: Lists
• Practice: Module 1 Project (Conditional Functions)
• Practice: Module 2 Project (Lists, Iteration, Strings)
• Practice: Debugging