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Enrichment • Series

How to Program --- for people who think they already can (Version 2.0)

Tim T

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This series ended on August 20, 2021. All 1:1 and group chats related to this series are disabled 7 days after the last session.

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SCHEDULE. Weekdays (M-F) at 11:00 AM EDT, for multiple weeks. The duration of the series is indeterminate, and will be extended one week at a time as we go forward. Approximately 17 sessions are anticipated. EXPECTATION. Active participation in sessions by speaking up, proposing coding solutions, and discussing the solutions of others. PREREQUISITE. Knowledge in any programming language of the concepts of variable, expression, assignment statement, conditional statement, loop (while and for), 1- and 2-dimensional array, procedure/function/method. GOAL. Learning the skill of programming. The subject of the tutorial is the programming process, not any particular programming language. Programming is codified into 130+ rules that you will learn, and practice using as we code communally in class. One of those rules is “Code with deliberation”, and you will be expected to do so by announcing for every line of code you suggest why it is a logical next thing to write according to rule #i. The skills learned are applicable for (essentially) every programming language, e.g., Java, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, FORTRAN, BASIC, etc. RESOURCE. The series folder (in Google Drive) is https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Lw0P_KJLn2FbmRNBZLbq7VQ2Mn-Ef_md?usp=sharing Truncated versions of a book will be doled out in the series folder. Typically, session material will be added AFTER the session. A first tranche is there now, and can be used to get a taste of what the series will be about.

Tutor Qualifications

Retired CS professor.

✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY

You will be expected to attend every session in the sequence, especially at the beginning, with occasional excused absences later on.

Dates

July 28 - August 20

Learners

7 / 20

Total Sessions

17

About the Tutor

I am an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, having taught at the college level starting in 1973, and was also co-founder and CEO of a cybersecurity company for 30+ years.

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