Introduction to Programming
CSC 401

Python

• Python, the web-site, comprehensive, includes
  • Python 3.2.5 downloads (for Windows, MacOS)
  • Tutorial
  • Reference
• Introduction to Computer Science with Python, Ljubomir Perkovic, Wiley, 2012.
• xkcd on Python
• Ljubomir's slides

Computer Science

• Outline of computer science
• Turing machines: in Lego, with markers, in Minecraft
• Babbage's difference engine no. 2, analytical engine
• Binary number system
• Leibniz's calculus ratiocinator
• ASCII and Unicode
• On becoming a programmer in 21 days
• xkcd: Unicode joke

Interviews, Puzzles, etc.

• How would you move Mount Fuji, William Poundstone, 2003. About the Microsoft Puzzle interviews.
• Test your Agile Mind (Deutsche Bank)
• Robozzle