CS 106A: Programming Methodologies

How Does This Class Work?

• Start the very beginning
• Careful to go step by step, little exercises every day
• Like swimming, you can't just read about it
• Learn by doing
• "reps" - Nick's favorite word
• Technology to practice ideas right away
• In just a couple weeks .. amazed at what you can do
• Partly because computers are powerful
• Partly because coding is easier than you think

No prior programming experience required.

There is one required text for this class, entitled Karel the Robot Learns Python. It's a short interactive tutorial that introduces the major concepts in programming in the context of an extremely simple robot world. This text is available for free on the class website. In addition to this text, we will also have reference material on Python available via the class webpage.