Python for Everybody (Audio/PY4E)

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**Python for Everybody (Audio/PY4E)**

These are the audio lectures to supplement the textbook ‘Python for Everybody: Exploring Information’ and its associated web site www.py4e.com. There is also a video podcast of this material.

Latest Episodes:

1.1 Why Program Oct 01, 2016

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Explore the nature of programming and how programming a computer is different than using a computer.

1.2 Hardware Architecture Oct 01, 2016

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In this lecture we learn abut how the computer processes and stores programs. We learn about the CPU, Memory, Storage and Input / Output devices are brought together to write a program.

1.3 Python as a Language Oct 01, 2016

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We look at how writing programs is just another form of communication. Instead of communicating with another person, we are communicating our ideas to a computer.

1.4 What do we Say to Python? Oct 01, 2016

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We look at the basics of the Python language and how we write code in Python to communicate sequential steps, conditional steps and repeated steps.

2.1 Building Blocks of Python Sep 30, 2016

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We look at Python's reserved words, how we name and use variables, why we choose meaningful (mnemonic) variable names and how assignment statements function.

2.2 Expressions Sep 30, 2016

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We look at how we use various numerical and string operations to compute new information and store the new values in variables.

3.1 If-Then-Else Sep 30, 2016

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The most basic conditional structure is the if statement where we either execute or skip a segment of code based on the results of a logical expression (i.e. asking a question).

3.2 More Conditional Statements Sep 30, 2016

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In this lecture we look at multi-branch if statements and the try-except concept where we can indicate a group of statements to be executed if something goes wrong with a block of statements.

4.1 Using Pre-Defined Functions Sep 30, 2016

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We look at how code flows into and out of functions as well has how we pass information into functions and get results returned to us.

4.2 Building our Own Functions Sep 30, 2016

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We look at how to build our own functions using parameters and arguments as well as how we return results to the code that is calling our functions.