I&C SCI 32 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operand, Mental Model

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Information and Computer Science
• Course: I&C SCI 32
• Professor: Sergio Masague

Document Summary

This course is the second in a three-quarter introductory sequence, which focuses on introducing you to computer science and to programming using python. While it"s not as though programming will suddenly become easy for everyone, we do intend to demystify real-world programming to the point where, after this course, you"re able to make positive progress on realistic problems of your own choosing. Before we delve too far into what"s on the menu for this quarter, we should probably first take a look back at where we"ve been previously. There are a number of things that i believe you will have been exposed to, and should have gained reasonably good facility with in your prior coursework. When you write programs, you understand that you have to build a mental model of two things: the information and the operation. The information is the data that your program will work with.