Lec.1: Elements of a Program | Intro to Python & Programming | Coding for Managers Series
Channel: Alexander Hess - Pythonista
Date: 04/02/2020

UPDATE: This on-campus course was cancelled due to the Corona virus. Find a newer studio recording of the entire course here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-2JV1G3J10lQ2xokyQowcRJI5jjNfW7f

This video is a recording of Lecture 1 of the "Introduction to Python & Programming" course at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany.

 In this introductory lecture you get a high-level overview on how Python works.
The big ideas to understand are:
- Why should we learn programming? Why Python in particular?
- How does Python manage the computer's memory for us
- The concept of a data type and how everything in Python is an object of a certain type
- How Python understands some things we type in "literally"
- How we can create variables
- How any computer program manages state
- The difference between statements and expressions
- How we can control the flow of execution 

PYTHON BOOK
The lecture is based on the free book "Introduction to Python & Programming".
Get it on GitHub: https://github.com/webartifex/intro-to-python

PYTHON LECTURES
Find all the video recordings of the book in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-2JV1G3J10lQ2xokyQowcRJI5jjNfW7f

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WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany 

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