Sloan coders club kickoff meeting
Questions we want to answer What is programming? Why should I learn to program? How will I learn to program?
Programming = Instructions What is programming? Programming is giving a computer commands to get it to do what you want it to do Programming = Instructions
What is programming? Computers read machine code
anything else will cause an error What is programming? Programs are made up of three things: keywords (reserved words) pieces of data variables (defined by you, the user) anything else will cause an error
Why learn programming? https://youtu.be/xfBWk4nw440?t=22s
How coders club plans to teach programming 1. Online curriculum (Learn) 2. Group Study Sessions 3. Speaker/Demo Series
languages
Why javascript JavaScript is the de facto language of the internet NYT ($$ jQuery selector in Chrome) Alert(‘hi’)
Why ruby The goal of Ruby is to make programmers happy. I started out to make a programming language that would make me happy, and as a side effect it’s made many, many programmers happy. I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language. -Yukihiro Matsumoto
Code exercise https://repl.it/L4pi/12