Introduction to Computing and Programming

Topics:

Book Chapter 1 (read it)
Introduction to UNIX accounts
- Login and create a cs175 or cs501a folder for future work.
Introduction to the BlueJ simple IDE.
First Java program
- Programming cycle
  - Edit, Compile, Run, Debug (back to Edit)
What we'll do this semester:
- Learn programming by writing programs.
  - Level of programming to expect:
    - Variation on the Hangman game
    - Card game (52 card deck) (with no arrays; could be challenging)
    - Robocode (end of semester tournament)