Class 1: Tuesday, January 27th

• Course Description
• This Course Requires Work
• Texts
• Unix Account
• Programming Assignments
• Course Work
• Software Needed for the Course
• Laptops
• Phones
• Attendance
• Recorded Class Meetings
• Course Documents
• Grading Policy
• Exams and Your Grade
• Late Work
• Email Notification
• Gradescope
• If You Fall Behind See Me
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Accommodations for Disabilities
• Classroom Behavior
• Academic Integrity
• Reputation
• Academic Honesty
• Honesty Expected In This Class
• What Happens If You Are Caught Cheating?
• Use of Artificial Intelligence Programs
• Class Discussion Area
• Class Assistant
• Making the Class Interesting
• Taking Notes
• The Most Important Thing to Learn in This Class
• Learn to Read Carefully
• Who Am I
• Do You Have Enough Time to Do the Work for This Course?
• Your Mental Health
• Office Hours
• Academic Support Programs
• Other UMB Services
• Contacting Me
• First Class Exercise
• First Homework Assignment

Class 2: Thursday, January 29th

• Assignments
• Submitting Assignments
• Working on Assignments
• Software for the Class
• Class Assistant
• Files
• Directories (Folders)
• Working With Files
• Your Unix Course Directory
• Types of Programming Languages
• Python
• Downloading Python
• Running IDLE
• Syntax Highlighting
• Creating a Python Script
• Running a Script in IDLE
• Changing a Python Script
• IDLE Has Two Different Parts
• Two Ways to Run Python
• Python in Class Exercises
• Running Python in Interactive Mode
• Scripts versus Interactive Mode
• Using FileZilla
• Today's Class Exercise

Class 3: Tuesday, February 3rd

• Some Skills Only Come With Work
• Class Exercises
• Getting Help
• Describing a Problem
• Don't Use Screenshots in Piazza
• Output
• Literals
• Strings and String Literals
• Triple Quotes
• Characters
• ASCII
• Unicode
• Representing Unicode Values
• Ranges of Characters in ASCII
• Variables
• Creating Variables with Assignment Statements