Readings

Lecture 4

• Functions, type conversion, and stack diagrams: Chapter 3 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• More about functions: Chapter 5 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (through section 5.4)
• Recursion: Chapter 4 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (from section 4.9 on), as well as Chapter 5 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (from section 5.5 on)

Lecture 5

• Numbers: Floating point arithmetic: issues and limitations from the Python Tutorial
• Successive approximation: Wikipedia article on Newton's method

Lecture 6

• Lists: Chapter 8 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• Dictionaries: Chapter 10 of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• As a reference: the Python Tutorial section on lists and dictionaries (feel free to skip 5.1.3 and 5.1.4)