Lesson Videos

This page contains all of the pre-recorded video lessons posted so far, with the most recent posting listed first. It is, for all intents and purposes, the textbook of this course. You are expected to keep up with these videos. Each lab and Zoom session will indicate the videos that we will have expected you to watch.

Note: These versions of the videos are not closed-captioned. If you need closed captioning support for these videos, please visit the official VOD channel for CS 1110.

20. Classes

Up until now, if we wanted to use objects, we imported a module that provided the class. In this lecture we finally learn how to create our own classes.    Watch ›

10 videos totalling 1:14 hours slides demos

19. Dictionaries

This lesson introduces the dictionary, which is the last built-in (as opposed to user-defined) type in this course. Many people consider this to be the most important type in Python.    Watch ›

8 videos totalling 50:12 minutes. slides demos

18. Nested-Lists

Lists can contain anything – even other lists. In this lesson we show why this is so important and what we have to look out for when using nested lists.    Watch ›

6 videos totalling 39:50 minutes. slides demos

17. Recursion

In this lesson we introduce recursion, a powerful programming tool and one of the fundamental principles of computer science. It is used in many advanced algorithms.    Watch ›

11 videos totalling 1:37 hours slides demos

16. For-Loops

Lists (and sequences) come with their own special control structure: the for-loop. This is the last traditional control structure we will see for a while.    Watch ›

8 videos totalling 1:02 hours slides demos