These Jupyter notebooks provide a self-study introduction to computing with Python. They have been developed for the computing course in Part IA (Michaelmas Term) of the Engineering Tripos at University of Cambridge. This is a first computing course for undergraduate students.
The notebooks can be freely used, shared and modified. See the copyright and license notice below.
Cambridge users should use their University credentials (CRSid) to log in.
Each notebook covers a topic, with a number of exercises for completion at the end of each notebook. Start with the notebook Part IA Michaelmas Term computing. Model solutions to the exercises are available - contact Flavia Mancini to request the solutions.
Cambridge students/staff: When prompted to sign in to the Google
Colaboratory service, use your University of Cambridge email address,
e.g. crsid@cam.ac.uk.
For each notebook there are a set of exercises in the directory Exercises for completion at end the of each Activity notebook.
These notebooks are maintained at https://github.com/CambridgeEngineering/PartIA-Computing-Michaelmas. Please report suggestions or errors at:
https://github.com/CambridgeEngineering/PartIA-Computing-Michaelmas/issues
These notebooks were developed by Garth N. Wells.
Valuable feedback during the development of the notebooks was provided by Quang T. Ha, Hugo Hadfield, Tim Love, Chris Richardson and Joanna Stadnik.
All material is copyright of Garth N. Wells (gnw20@cam.ac.uk).
All text is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode).
All computer code is released under the MIT license.
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