Designed to teach computer programming to major and non - Computer Science majors with an introduction to Python Programming in interesting, relevant, and practical contexts. Focus is on hands-on Python programming skills, problem-solving using algorithmic thinking, abstraction, implementing an algorithm to executable code, debugging and testing software programs. Fundamental programming constructs such as variables, data types, selection, iteration, functions, data structures (lists, strings, dictionaries, tuples, DataFrames), file I/O, and other core concepts are covered. Applications focus on computational techniques to understand, analyze, and automate data analysis, basic encryption algorithms, matrix manipulation, sorting and searching algorithms, basic game design, and more.