EGR 103/Concept List/S23
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Lecture 1 - 1/11 - Course Introduction
- Main class page: EGR 103L
- Includes links to Sakai, Pundit, and Ed pages
- Sakai page: Sakai 103L page; grades, surveys and tests, some assignment submissions; first day slideshow in Resources section goes over everything else.
Lecture 2 - 8/27 - Programs and Programming
- Almost all languages have input, output, math, conditional execution (decisions), and repetition (loops)
- Seven steps of programming The Seven Steps Poster. Also, for next Friday's class:
- Watch video on Developing an Algorithm
- Watch video on A Seven Step Approach to Solving Programming Problems
- Problem: Consider how to decide if a number is a prime number
- Some "shortcuts" for specific factors (2, 3, and 5, for example) but need to have a generalized approach
- See if number is evenly divisible by any integer between 2 and the square root of the number - but how do we ask the computer to do that?
- Very quick tour of Python with Spyder
