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Lecture 1: What is Computation?
- Course
- Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python
- Instructor
- Dr. Ana Bell
- Department
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Recorded
- Fall 2016
- Level
- Undergraduate
Free account required. The lecture opens at MIT OpenCourseWare.
About this lecture
In this lecture, Dr. Bell introduces the theory of computation and explains some aspects of computational thinking. Programming languages are discussed, with an emphasis on basic Python syntax and data structures.
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