Lecture 00
Introduction to Computer Science

Reading

Topics

• Syllabus
• TA's Office Hours
• General Questions and Help
• Getting an account on the GL UNIX machines
• What is Computer Science?
• Algorithms, programming, debugging
• Learning Computer Science by learning to program in C

Announcements

• No Discussion Sections this week 8/31 - 9/2 or next week 9/6 - 9/9

For next class

• Buy text and read chapters 1 to 3.
• Get an account on the UMBC GL machines if you don't already have a "UMBC email account"
• Review the CMSC 201 web pages.