Science - Course - Introduction to Programming

This course consists of an Introduction to computer hardware and software. Binary system and data representation. The software life-cycle. Flow charts and IPO-charts. Introduction to computer programming and problem solving. Structured high level language programming with an emphasis on procedural abstraction and good programming style. The basic looping and selection constructs, arrays, functions, parameter passing, and scope of variables. * The practical part of this course, provided by the department of Mathematics and Computer Science, will be adjusted accordingly for the group of Biology/Biochemistry students enrolled in the Computational Biology track. The labs will provide direct application to biomedical informatics systems.