COM1300: Introduction to Computer Science

Abstract

This course is both an Introduction to “Computer Science” and an Introduction to “Programming”. Students will get a sense of the sort of problems that can be solved using a computer, get experience writing computer programs that fulfill requirements which are described in English, and becoming skillful at iteratively improving an initial (possibly “buggy”) program into a working program. Students will learn to apply computational thinking to frame problems and to guide the process of solving problems. This course is about learning to solve problems using code, and is not about memorizing facts.