Programming Basics

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Getting Started

• LWP 1: The way of the program
• LWP 2: Variables, expressions and statements
• PDA 1: Preliminaries
• PDA 2: Python Language Basics, iPython, and Jupyter Notebooks

other useful readings

• The way of the program
• Variables, expressions, and statements
• Python Language Basics

Conditionals, Iteration, & Control Flow

• LWP 5: Conditionals
• LWP 7: Iteration
• PDA 3: Built-in Data Structures, Functions, and Files
• PDA 4: NumPy Basics: Arrays and Vectorized Computation
• PDA 5: Getting Started with pandas
• Conditionals and recursion (you can ignore for now the section on recursion)
• Control Flow

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MATLAB

MATLAB Documentation

MATLAB Documentation main page

• Getting Started
• Language Fundamentals
• Programming

Floating-Point numbers

• Largest and Smallest Values
• Accuracy of Floating-Point Data
• Avoiding Common Problems with Floating-Point Arithmetic
• play with the IEEE-754 Floating Point Converter (e.g. lookup the representation of 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3)