Hi

I'm Joe Versoza

I'm a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department
My email address is jversoza at cs dot nyu dot edu
You can find me in WWH 423, Mon, Tue, and Wed from 11:05PM to 11:45PM

Nice to Meet You

You don't have any prior programming experience
You want to learn how to program!

INFO - no prior programming experience
INFO - this class is for CS minors
INFO - or a prerequisite for incoming CS majors

About This Class

What You Can Expect

Understand fundamental concepts behind programming
Be able to write programs using a language called Python
Be ready to learn other languages and concepts!

Logistics

For future classes:

Bring your laptop!
Or, at the very least, pen/pencil and paper

The Course Site

The course site is available at http://cs.nyu.edu/~jversoza/
- Follow the link to the course page…
- Or use the incredibly difficult url to remember, write, and even say: http://foureyes.github.io/csci-ua.0002-summer2017-001
Pro tip: add a question mark and print (?print) to the slides url to get the one page version →
Also, the course site and slides were only tested on Chrome on OSX (so you may have to use Chrome to view the slides from home)

INFO - you can also get to this through Courant's list of courses

Course Work

* INFO - topics - some are specific to Python

Contacting Me

email me at jversoza at cs dot nyu dot edu
if I don't get back to you within 48 hours
- robots think your email is suspicious
- I wasn't able to get to your email yet
- my inbox exploded
… so you should email me again, or if it's urgent:
- see me before or after class
- drop by WWH 423 on Mon, Tue, and Wed from 11:05PM to 11:45PM

Today

What's a program
Computer hardware, software and data storage
Programming languages
The tools that we'll be using
A little bit about Python
Installation
Reading and writing programs
The conceptual workflow for writing programs

OK. Let's go!