Intended Audience

This course is designed for participants without any prior programming experience. Prerequisites are only some experience with an operating system and a general understanding of common computer task such as office software or similar applications.

Course Content

The basics of programming are explained systematically using Python.

This includes:

• Comparison of different contemporary programming languages in term of functionality, application as well as advantages and disadvantages

• What does programming mean?

• Data types, values, and variables

• Expressions and statements

• Operators

• Functions

• Flow of control

• Loops

• Strings

• Lists, tuples

• Dictionaries

• Handling of files

• Object orientation

  • Classes
  • Methods
  • Inheritance
  • Polymorphism

• Programming praxis

  • Development environments
  • Debugging
  • Types of development

All topics are introduced with examples. Each topic is immediately applied in computer exercises.

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