Introduction to Programming is a series of handouts I wrote in lieu of having students buy a textbook. They are written for beginning and intermediate students. The more advanced topics are marked with a star (*). The handouts cover the main content I expect students to understand. Interested students can find even more material by searching the web.

• 1.0 Expectations: Computers are Fast but Stupid
  • 1.1: Syntax and Semantics. (3p)
• 2.0 I/O: Communication
  • 2.1 Output: Hello, World. (2p)
  • 2.2 Input: Hello, Joe. (1p)
  • 2.3* Formatting: printf. (6p)
• 3.0 Data: variables etc.
  • 3.1 Simple Variables. (3p)
  • 3.2 Names, Parsing, and Scanning. (2p)
  • 3.3 (tba) Arrays. Push/Pop. Foreach. Split/Join. ()
  • 3.4* (tba) Hashes. ()
  • 3.5* (tba) Databases. SQL. ()
• 4.0 Control: Sequence, If/Else, Loops, Subroutines
  • 4.1 Sequence. (2p)
  • 4.2 (tba) Conditionals: If/Else. ()
  • 4.3 (tba) Iteration: Loops. ()
  • 4.4 (tba) Subroutines. ()
• 6.0 Online: Web Programming
  • 6.1 Passwords vs Hackers. (2p)
  • 6.2 (tba) CGI. ()
• A.0 Projects
  • A.1.1 Risk Dice. (3p)
  • A.1.2 Risk Roller. (3p)
  • A.2 Hangman Project. (2p)