Class 1

Arithmetic, loops, lists

• kinds of values: boolean, integer, floating point
• add, subtract, multiply, divide, modulus (remainder)
• for loop
• lists, concatenation, appending, indexing, changing, length, membership test, looping, sorting

Links

• Python tutor visualizer
• Python cheat sheets
• Jupyter everywhere
• Practical Python Programming: numbers, lists
• A little about why floating point numbers behave unexpectedly

Front end, back end

• Frontends + Backends restaurant analogy (dining room = frontend, kitchen = backend/API/database). Part 1 of a 6-part series.
• Mobbin flow – see many, many screens from apps.
• How to Make Sense of Any Mess (Abby Covert; full text free) – information architecture: “the way we arrange the parts of something to make it understandable.”
• Web apps vs native apps vs hybrid apps (AWS) – basic lingo.

Addition circuits

• Circuits that add numbers
• Video on said circuits

Class 2

Functions, variables

Databases

Computer organization

Class 3

Dictionaries, objects, libraries

git

LLMs and agents

Class 4

Files, network, scraping

Other languages

The apps that run our code

The github repository of python itself

Class 5

Storage, games (and game state trees)

Specs

The notional machine

Class 6

Advanced python topics: sympy, numpy, pytorch

QA

Theory of programming languages

Notes

Coding

• Practical Python Programming
• Python tutor visualizer
  • Examples
• Jupyter everywhere

Overviews

• How Computers Work – playlist of 5 5-minute videos.
• How the Internet Works – playlist of 6 7-minute videos.
• Software Engineering for Vibe Coders: Frontends + Backends restaurant analogy (dining room = frontend, kitchen = backend/API/database). Part 1 of a 6-part series.
• What happens when you type google.com – the exhaustive answer, keypress to pixels.
• Mobbin flow – see many, many screens from apps.
• Apple Accessibility Inspector
• How to Make Sense of Any Mess (Abby Covert; full text free) – information architecture: “the way we arrange the parts of something to make it understandable.”
• Web apps vs native apps vs hybrid apps (AWS) – basic lingo.
• Introduction to Web Development (The Odin Project) – another high level overview.
• Margaret Hamilton

Building apps

• Apple’s iOS Pathway
• Apple developer Pathway – steps to ship an app
• 100 Days of SwiftUI – I used this.
• Swift Playgrounds – build a real SwiftUI app with live preview on iPad or Mac, no Xcode. The only zero-setup on-ramp for mobile.
• [Unwrap: Learn Swift on your iPad](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unwrap/id1440611372 Unwrap)

Building web sites

• Reddit thread about what to use in 2026
• Next.js on Wikipedia – understanding what this entry is saying about rendering on the server versus in the browser is an excellent goal.
• Reddit thread about building a custom CRM with a floating chat window – I just want to share how people talk about these things.

Building terminal programs

• Roguelike dungeon-crawl tutorial in Rust

AI for coding

• Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (Simon Willison) – low stakes only, watch secrets and data privacy, set billing limits, get a review.
• Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming, 2nd ed.

Pedagogy

• Teaching Tech Together
• Teachcomputing
• CS teaching tips
• Amy J. Ko’s free books – Critically Conscious Computing has the most on how novices form misconceptions.