This morning’s opening lecture for the course presented a general overview of the topics in Inf1-DA, some of the motivations behind them, and information about practical arrangements. You can read all this in the slides which are also available by clicking on the title slide image to the right.

Link: Slides for Lecture 1

Homework

Read the following two things before the next lecture on Friday.

	The Inf1-DA course web pages. Obviously you’re reading one of them now (very good, well done) but you should also read through each section listed in the menu bar at the top.
	Computational Thinking Jeannette M. Wing Communications of the ACM 49(3):33–35 DOI: 10.1145/1118178.1118215 Link: Full text online Dr Wing is Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research, and Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.