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Fundamentals of Practical Computing: A Course for Future Scientists and Engineers

This course is designed for students considering majors in science, engineering, or medicine. With small class sizes and a diverse range of topics, we aim to make computing accessible and fun, using practical applications rather than theoretical depth. Students will engage with a variety of programming languages, teamwork strategies, and online resources to enhance their learning experience. Homework is practical, with support available through hints and collaboration. The focus is on building confidence in problem-solving and information retrieval in computing.

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Fundamentals of Practical Computing: A Course for Future Scientists and Engineers

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  1. 600.103 FUNDAMENTALS OF PRACTICAL COMPUTING • Intended audience: • Students considering a major in • science, engineering or medicine • Small Class • Diversity: Geeks  Mainstream • like Calculus &“typing” • College  High School  Elementary School • Fun (not too much work)  Sell the field • Post lecture notes on web (no textbooks) • Practical: • Please bring laptops to class if you can • Familiarize students with lots of stuff (breadth) • Not just a single programming language (not depth) • Fundamentals: • Lots more to Computer Science than hacking

  2. Teamwork, Web-work, etc. • Encourage teamwork, Google, Wikipedia, etc. • Homework: • Submit by email to Kenneth.Church@jhu.edu • Due Tuesday and Thursday mornings at sunrise • So I have time to adjust my lectures (if necessary) • Target: 2 hours per hour of class • 1 hour installing software, plus • 1 hour of exercises (as opposed to problem sets) • Homework comes with hints (as opposed to recipes) • Feel free to ask for more hints (Kenneth.Church@jhu.edu) • Example: Use Google to figure out how to install • Scratch (a programming language for middle school kids) • Python (a programming language for …)

  3. What will you learn from this course? • Probably not much… • If this is the only Computer Science course that you will ever take • There is only so much I can expect you to learn • Hope: • In a decade from now, • if you need to program something simple in a hurry • (in a language that none of us know anything about), • you will have the confidence that • you can search the web and • figure out what you need just-in-time

  4. Open-Mind Exams: Mid-Term & Final • Open-mind: • Open book, Open laptop, Open network • Plenty of time (take-home) • Goal: • Confidence in your ability to search • Find what you need just-in-time • Please don’t cram (and please don’t cheat)

  5. Languages (Freeware) • Scratch: Programming language for kids • Web: HTML, Javascript • Phones: VoiceXML • Spreadsheets • Databases: SQL • Stats: R • Python • Unix • C

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