Outline for today

* Who am I?
  - Jeff Kinne, assistant professor of CS
  - from Cincinnati, bachelor's from Xavier, PhD from Wisconsin
  - 3 kids, all young boys, wife is a high school math/CS teacher
  - most call me Jeff, Dr or Prof is you prefer

* What is this course?
  - first course in CS major, first CS course for IT majors, required by
    various technology or other majors
  - Introduction to programming...
    We want to make the computer do what we want - save a document for us, 
    search the internet, send email, change pictures, make a movie, ...
    And we want to write the software/program/code to do that.
  - Some examples - hangman, number guessing game, tic-tac-toe, robot, ...

* Go over syllabus...
  - take attendance

* Look at projected schedule as well, assigned reading.

* Installing python, save hw0.py, open it, run it.
  - and play around with a few other things too.
  - and how to turn in homework.

* What is a program, what is an algorithm?
  - In-class example: how do you find the largest?
  - how do you sort a list of number?
  - How can you be specific enough that a computer can do that, without
    misunderstanding you?  Computer languages, computer programming! 
    - Use python, very specific about the rules, though much easier than 
      using machine language or assembly language or C.

* Reading for the weekend - see the schedule

* HW0 due in one week.
  - For any HW, start it right away.  If you send me something early, I will
    look at it and let you know if it looks correct or not.  You can then 
    make corrections and turn it in again, as long as you turn it in before
    the due date.
    
* If you are planning on dropping this course, please do it now.  So then
  other people who are waiting to sign up will be able to (right now, the 
  enrollment is at the max of 40).

* Use room A-008 or A-009?