Session Details

Week 1, Session 1 — Tue Mar 6

Topics

1. What it means to do:
   • Software Engineering
   • Software development
2. What a program is
3. Some key programming primitives
   • Calling functions
   • Assigning values to variables
   • Loops
   • Defining your own functions
   • Input and output
   • Documentation
4. Introductions to:
   • Eclipse, our IDE (Interactive Developement Environment)
   • Python, our programming language
5. How to use Eclipse to:
   • Execute statements in a Python shell
   • Get a program from a repository
   • Run a program and view its output
   • Edit a program to make it behave differently

Outline

HW Due

1. None

HW Assigned

1. HW 1

Resources

1. An annotated Input-Compute-Ouput program
2. Today's handouts for Getting Started in Eclipse and Python
3. Today's slides
4. Today's in-class quiz
5. The official Python documentation
   • This is for the most current version of Python 3.
   • The Library Reference link on that page (subtitled keep this under your pillow) takes you to the Python Standard Library, which is a huge collection of Python modules, classes and functions.