1. INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE Shieu-Hong Lin MATH/CS Department Chapel

2. Outlines  What is computer science?  What is programming?  How do I learn in this course?

3. Who is Dr. Lin ?

4. What is computer science about ?  The Science of Computation  Create automatic intelligent machinery for information processing

5. What is programming ?  use a computer language,  to write down instructions (a program ) for the computer,  so that the computer hardware can behave in a way we want

6. How do I learn in this course ?  The Read-Write-Try Cycle  Exposure! Exposure! Exposure!  Try on your own as hard as you can  Seek help when you really get stuck

7. How do I learn in this course ? It often helps a lot if you make friends in the class and learn together.

8. Use what you learn from the course Geoffrey Knopf (Engineering Physics) May 2013  “… I used a numerical method called the bisection method which is similar to the binary search algorithm presented in CSCI 105. This improved the performance of the algorithm exponentially.  Fortunately, I was able to develop the entire software application using the tools I learned from CSCI 105 and 106.

9. Use what you learn from the course Geoffrey Knopf (Engineering Physics) May 2013 … In exchange for my work, Fabcon has issued me a handsome check. In addition, I am working towards getting the software licensed so that I can sell it to other manufacturing companies. It may help pay for college. All that being said, I have found Biola's computer science classes very applicable.”

10. Teaching Assistants (TAs) Section 1: 10:30-11:45am  Frank Navarro-Velasco and  Thomas Stewart

11. Teaching Assistants (TAs) Section 2: 1:30-2:45pm;  Alvin Suh and  William Tan