Cindy Royal Texas State U PROGRAMMING FOR COMMUNICATORS
It's fun! Helps you think logically through problems Important to continue to improve tech skills Good to learn about programming beyond html/css Communicate with programmers Understand potential of applications Make websites respond to user interaction Build apps and games Access information on the Internet Organize and present data Validate forms It’s fun! WHY SHOULD I LEARN TO PROGRAM?
Fortran, LISP and COBOL 1950s Basic 1964 Pascal 1970 C++/Perl 1980s Programming in the Internet Age ‘90s Object-oriented (collections of interacting objects) Python Ruby PHP HTML/CSS – markup languages Web Frameworks – rapid application development JavaScript PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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