IT 211: Intro to Applied Programming

Course Overview

Students learn elementary programming concepts through the Python programming language.

Course Goals

The primary goal of this course is to provide a general understanding of programming and computing by developing elementary scripts. Specific goals include writing scripts with the following:

  • Expressions and assignment statements with diverse data types
  • Control statements including conditionals (if statements) and loops
  • Arrays and iterators
  • Defining simple methods
  • Defining and using classes