Introduction to Programming 2

About This Course

The course provides introduction to programming basics, problem-solving methods and algorithm development. This course is developed to learn programming fundamentals and writing algorithms in Python programming language. During this course, students will improve programming skills, writing simple algorithms using Python technologies.

Course Learning Goals

This course's goal is to teach everyone the basics of programming computers using Python. We cover the basics of how one constructs a program from a series of simple instfuctions and assignments in Python. The course is designed to provide Basic knowledge of Python. Python programming is intended for software engineers, system analysts, program managers and user support personnel.

Course Staff

Elvira Aitmukhanbetova

Elvira Aitmukhanbetova is a senior lecturer at Astana IT University, Department of Software Engineering, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. She received her Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, United States. She has teaching experience of 4 years. She has presented several research papers in international journals. Her scientific interest is in the field of data science and mathematical modeling.

Tutkyshbayeva Shyryn

PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Engineering. Her research interests include IoT, information security, education, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence. (E-mail: sh.tutkyshbayeva@astanait.edu.kz)

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