Version 1 and 2: Instruction is offered online through video lectures, study guides, required and supplemental readings, quizzes, homework, and final exams. Major topics include: writing a program that produces “hello world” as the first exercise in coding, why python is the ideal computer language for beginners and many others, installing python and the programming editor pycharm, variables: operations and input/output, conditionals and boolean expressions, program development and testing, loops and iterations, files and strings, operations with lists, top-down design of a data analysis program, functions and abstraction, parameter passing, scope, and mutable data, error types, systematic debugging, exceptions, python standard library, modules, packages, game design with functions, bottom-up design, turtle graphics, robotics, event-driven programming, visualizing data and creating simulations, classes and object-oriented programming, objects with inheritance and polymorphism, data structures: stack, queue, dictionary, recursion and running times, graphs and trees, graph search and a word game, algorithms: searching and sorting, and parallel computing.