1. Sloan coders club kickoff meeting

2. Questions we want to answer
What is programming?
Why should I learn to program?
How will I learn to program?

3. Programming = Instructions
What is programming?
Programming is giving a computer commands to get it to do what you want it to do
Programming = Instructions

4. What is programming?
Computers read machine code

5. 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

6. Why learn programming?

7. How coders club plans to teach programming
1. Online curriculum (Learn) 2. Group Study Sessions 3. Speaker/Demo Series

8. languages

9. Why javascript
JavaScript is the de facto language of the internet NYT ($$ jQuery selector in Chrome) Alert(‘hi’)

10. 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

11. Code exercise