How To Program --- for people who think they already can.

Tim T

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This series ended on July 31, 2021. All 1:1 and group chats related to this series are disabled 7 days after the last session.

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SCHEDULE. Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9:00 PM EDT, for multiple weeks. The duration of the series is indeterminate, and will be extended one week at a time as we go forward.

EXPECTATION. That you will actively contribute to the 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 95+ 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/1DPpiOluiJea54UIJr5xXGvQ_ffaOwWj8?usp=sharing

✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY

You will be expected to attend every session in the sequence, especially at the beginning, with occasional excused absences later on. The series is limited to people who already participated in the first three sessions that were held on 6/23, 6/25, and 6/28 as the separate meetings:

- https://schoolhouse.world/session/5544,

- https://schoolhouse.world/session/5545, and

- https://schoolhouse.world/session/5546.

Contact the host directly if you do not meet this requirement.

Dates

July 1 - July 31

Learners

7 / 15

Total Sessions

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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