Getting Started With Programming

Notes for the required material 

• These notes can be purchased in the Student Union Copy Center at cost
• Starting Pascal Programming: Basic program structure, variables, input and output in Pascal (Leestma & Nyhoff Chapter 3): [PowerPoint] [Acrobat: 2 slides/page] [Acrobat: 6 slides/page]

Optional teaching material

Background / Sources of additional information

• Pascal Programming and Problem Solving by Leestma S. and Nyhoff L. 4th Edition (MacMillan Publishing Company).
• Pascal an Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming by Savitch W.J. (The Benjamin / Cummings Publishing Co., Inc.). 
• The Pascal link under the GNU website (since the U of C Computer Science department uses the GNU Pascal compiler gpc).

Teaching Tips

The main point of this section is to introduce the basic parts of a computer program and how commonly used operations are implemented in the language.  The basics are generally the same regardless of the programming language taught in this course (e.g., Pascal, C, C++, Java etc.) this section should include concepts such as: the basic structure of a program written in the language (e.g., header, some sort of starting point for execution such as a "main"), how basic input and output is implemented by the programming language, what are the common mathematical operators in the language.