Course Introduction

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• Students entering Advanced Programming should have taken an introductory programming course, one of
  • Programming Your World, where you learned
    • Functional programming using Racket
    • Imperative programming using Python
  • Intermediate Programming, Principles and Practice, where you learned
    • Low-level and pointer programming using C
    • Higher-level and object-oriented programming using Python
• What's next?
• Deepen and broaden your knowledge
• Expand your programming skills. How to think about programming.
• Software development tools: automation & collaboration

• Many programming languages. There is a baffling array of programming languages you could learn.
• For each programming language there are many libraries. There are around 100 libraries in just the Python Standard Libraries alone.
• Many frameworks. Even for something as specific as choosing a framework to build a web site in Python there are dozens of choices.
• We can narrow the choices down somewhat by categorising programming languages into Programming Paradigms.

• Course Manual
• In class: sometimes laptop, sometimes pen and paper.
• Grading, assignments and submission
• Writing and reading programs. Grading criteria.
• Attendance, presence, tardiness, distractions.
• Guidelines on the use of Generative AI

• Operating Systems
• In the Beginning Was the Command Line
  • full text
• How to Use The Command Line
• code editor: Emacs
• It gets messy out there…

• Internship vacancy
• Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1996, Game 1