{"id":867,"date":"2009-12-06T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T20:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2009-12-06T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T20:40:51","slug":"learning-python-for-programmers-video-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/06\/learning-python-for-programmers-video-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Python for programmers &#8211; video lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my day job I teach students how to program. Recently, I gave three days of review lectures for my CS 1301 (Introduction to Computation &#8211; With Python and Robots) class. These three 50 minute lectures brushed over all of the major topics we covered in class very quickly. 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