Monday June 30

What is computer programming? When you think of comp sci, you think of people sitting in front of a computer programming it to do what you want it to do. But what does that involve? How do you explain to a computer exactly what you want to do?

I'll be discussing what it means to program a computer. How computers have no intuition, and cannot be instructed like other people. I will attempt to describe the process required to take a problem and translate that into a program that a computer can understand and run. I'll be touching on topics like program design, programming languages/syntax, execution of code by a computer, etc. As an example of some of the things involved, I will be talking about cs15 some.

I'm trying to get across what exactly is involved with computer programming, and hopefully convey some of the satisfaction and excitement you can get when you get a program to work.

Other:

We will continue to talk about HTML and the students can begin to work on their own pages.

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