Welcome to your first course in computer science!
I think you're going to enjoy this course. Working in front of a computer is a nice break from your other courses, and there are lots of interesting things to learn.
We'll start the year with a little background information about computers and how they work from the Norton textbook. It's an excellent textbook with many "pictures that say more than a thousand words." It was published a while ago, in 2000, so a few details have gone out of date, but we'll correct those little problems. Overall it's great.
After the introduction, we begin to write computer programs, which I think is going give you quite a thrill. There's something about writing your own programs, having that much control over the computer - it's very cool!
Whether you get a kick out of it at the beginning or not, later in the year I guarantee you're going to enjoy pixel graphics (Chapter 8 of the Turing textbook), where you create colour and animation and all sorts of razzle-dazzle.
So get ready to enjoy, enjoy, ENJOY!
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