Introduction to Computer Programming

📋 Course Outline

1. Programming Vocabulary Baseline
2. Computers and Program Responsibility
3. System and Application Programs
4. Binary and Machine Language
5. Three Programming Language Levels
6. Compilation and Interpretation
7. Classification and Exact Instructions

📖 1. Programming Vocabulary Baseline

📝 Essential Points

• Unit 1 is a two-hour lecture with two hours of lecture time and no laboratory work, and students write and compile no code in this unit.

📖 2. Computers and Program Responsibility

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Computer : A machine that stores data and carries out instructions on that data exactly as given.
• Program : A complete set of instructions that tells a computer how to perform one job.
• Instruction : One single command inside a program.

📝 Essential Points

📌 A computer obeys literally, obeys instructions in order unless told to jump, and never guesses when an instruction has no single definite meaning.

• The programmer is accountable for every instruction a computer carries out, including instructions that were omitted or failed to handle a case.

📖 3. System and Application Programs

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions