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Setting Context

What’s the Importance of Computing? (length: 16:52)
Benefits of Understanding Foundational Computing Concepts (slide file) (length: 7:02)

Getting Started

Assignments & naming - video 1 (slide file) (length: 7:25)
Assignments & naming - Python examples (length: 8:40)
Assignments & naming - R examples (length: 10:14)
Basic Types & Operations - Python (length: 9:59)
Basic Control Flow (slide file) (length: 8:08)

Functions

Introduction to Functions (slide file) (length: 2:22)
Calling Built-in Functions (slide file) (length: 4:53)
Calling Functions in Python (slide file) (length: 9:26)
Calling Functions in R (length: 8:10)
Defining Your Own Functions - Python (slide file) (length: 16:29)
Defining Your Own Functions - R (slide file) (length: 16:37)

Control Flow

Basic Control Flow (slide file) (length: 8:08)
Conditional selection of rows from dataframes (slide file) (length: 10:57)

Memory Management

Memory Models for Sequences (slide file) (length: 9:02)
Memory Models for Dataframes (slide file) (length: 9:12)
Working With Dataframes (length: 14:01)

Good Programming Practices

Reading Documentation (length: 6:21)

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