Read chapters 8, 9, and 10 in our book for Wednesday. They are quite short and you are already familiar with most of 8 and 9. We'll introduce our last required data structure, the dictionary, on Wednesday.
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Over the next few lectures we’ll be talking about functions, and then conditionals. In our book you can find useful reading on these subjects in Chapters 3 through 5.
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Read pages 1-9 and skim the rest of this really nice
Introduction to NumPy and SciPy by Scott Shell
. Simply skip the parts you don't understand but refer back to it as we cover more of numpy.
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A
short explanation by Edsger Dijkstra
(a CS giant) of why we number and index from 0.
Here is an accessible version
of that handwritten document.
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Read Chapters 1 and 2 in
our book
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