OIM3640 - Problem Solving and Software Design

2025 Spring

Session 02 (1/23)

Today's Agenda

• Welcome/News/Announcements
• Introduction to GitHub
• Lectures:
  • 01 - Introduction to Python
  • 02 - Variables, expressions and statements

Welcome/News/Announcements

• You should have read the course syllabus
• You should have installed
  • Python 3.13.1
  • GitHub Desktop
  • Visual Studio Code - with extensions:
    • Python
    • vscode-icons
• Email - please specify your course number
  • Subject title example: "OIM3640: Question about my GitHub settings"
• Questions?

Welcome, new friend! How are you doing?

Please introduce yourself, including:

• Who are you? Where did you come from?
• Which year are you in? What's your best moment at Babson so far?
• What is your concentration? Are you going to rule the world with that?
• Why did you decide to take this class?
• Do you have any programming experience?
• How was your 2024 and winter break? Did you do anything exciting or just binge on Netflix?
• How can we remember you? Tell a fun fact or a boring fact about yourself.

How to Learn (Python) Programming?

Introduction to GitHub

• Create GitHub account
• Create a new repository, OIM3640
• Work on the repository
• Commit and Push

Lectures

• Zen of Python

  • type import this in Python interactive shell (Python REPL)
  • try import antigravity

• 01 - Introduction to Python

  • Why Python keeps growing, explained