Class 1: Tuesday, January 28th

• Course Description
• Programming Is Hard, but You Can Do It
• Texts
• Programming Environment
• What Happens in Class
• Course Work
• Making the Class Interesting
• Taking Notes
• Laptops
• The Most Important Thing to Learn in This Class
• Attendance
• Who Am I
• Do You Have Enough Time to Do the Work for This Course?
• Getting Enough Sleep
• Learn to Read Carefully
• Course Documents
• Grading Policy
• Late Work
• Email Notification
• If You Fall Behind See Me
• Accommodations for Disabilities
• Classroom Behavior
• Academic Honesty
• Cheating
• Class Discussion Area
• Office Hours
• Unix Lab Assistant
• Academic Support Programs
• Contacting Me
• First Class Exercise
• First Homework Assignment
• First Reading Assignment

Class 2: Thursday, January 30th

• We Will Be Using Unix in This Class
• Working with Unix
• Connecting to a Unix Machine
• Your Home Directory
• The Hierarchical Filesystem
• Moving To A Different Directory
• Always Know Where You Are
• Creating A New Directory
• Types of Programming Languages
• Python
• Working with Python
• Running Python in Interactive Mode
• Experimenting with Python
• Python Scripts
• Scripts versus Interactive Mode
• Today's Class Exercise

Class 3: Tuesday, February 4th

• Class Exercises
• Creating the Class Exercise Script on Unix
• Basic Unix Commands
• The nano Text Editor
• The Hierarchical Filesystem
• Output
• Literals
• Strings and String Literals
• Triple Quotes
• Characters
• ASCII
• Unicode
• Representing Unicode Values
• Ranges of Characters in ASCII
• Variables
• Creating Variables with Assignment Statements

Class 4: Thursday, February 6th

• Using the Unix mv Command to Fix Problems
• Checking Class Exercises
• Use Flash Cards to Prepare for Graded Quizzes
• Expressions
• Comments
• Variable Naming Rules
• Choosing Good Variable Names
• Printing Multiple Values
• Numeric Data Types and Literals
• Why You Need to Know About Data Types
• Conversion Functions
• Reading Input from the Keyboard
• Reading Numbers with the input Function