Eric Grimson, John Guttag

Lecture 01: Goals of the course; what is computation; introduction to data types, operators, and variables

Lecture 02: Operators and operands; statements; branching, conditionals, and iteration

Lecture 03: Common code patterns: iterative programs

Lecture 04: Decomposition and abstraction through functions; introduction to recursion

Lecture 05: Floating point numbers, successive refinement, finding roots

Lecture 06: Bisection methods, Newton/Raphson, introduction to lists

Lecture 07: Lists and mutability, dictionaries, pseudocode, introduction to efficiency

Lecture 08: Complexity; log, linear, quadratic, exponential algorithms

Lecture 09: Binary search, bubble and selection sorts

Lecture 10: Divide and conquer methods, merge sort, exceptions