1. Programming Diane Pozefsky & Belinda Kerchmar

2. Where have we been? Websites HTML Code CSS Code PHP includes Spreadsheets Booleans If Statements Logical Breakdown of Problems Strings Error Handling

3. Where can you go? With the skills you’ve learned, our claim is that you essentially know the building blocks for learning how to program. You can very easily make the jump to a programming language.

4. What is Programming? Need to understand WHAT you want to build Take a large problem and break it into smaller pieces Write in a programming language Make it available to people to use

5. Problem Break Down Where have we seen the need to break problems into smaller parts? Grades Normalize Drop lowest exam Absence Translate to letter grade Book List Author last name Format title Retrieve country

6. For Bigger Project If you were to write a word processor: Type characters receive input from keyboard Erase characters receive input from keyboard Spell check Formatting Table of contents …

7. Error Handling Allows a program to give a meaningful message to the user. Seen in Excel as #value vs. “Please check value”. Can cause a program to exit cleanly rather than crashing.

8. Python Python was created to be: simple free of excess syntax beautiful You can download & play with python here: http://www.python.org/download/

9. What can we do in Python? Just about everything! Strings Concatenation Substring Trim Booleans If Statements

10. Python Can be used two ways Interactive Produce a program for others Python has it’s own syntax, just like CSS & HTML

11. Python Time...

12. Other Courses Comp 110 -- Introduction to Programming [Spring and Fall] Comp 116 -- Introduction to Scientific Programming [Spring and Fall] Comp 380 OR Comp 381-- Computers & Society [Spring and Fall] Comp 416 -- Web Programming [Fall only]