2. Variables and functions

Week 2 (September 1)

Due: 1.2 Terminal Adventure lab , 1.3 Names lab

Introduction to functions in two metaphors: decomposing tasks and learning new words. Getting comfortable with the Terminal; discussion of material intelligence.

• The Pedagogy of Programming
• Assignments
• Department-Wide Policies
• Schedule
• 1. Imperative programming
• 2. Variables and functions
• 3. Control structures
• 4. Planning
• 5. Functional programming
• 6. Processing data
• 7. Distributed computing
• 8. Data science tools
• 9. Debugging and testing
• 10. Object-oriented programming
• 11. Strategy
• 12. Frameworks
• 13. Games project
• 14. Wrap-up
• Syllabus