Hello, students. I am Doctor Mia Simmons Holman and I will be your instructor for introduction to programming throughout the course. If you have any questions and need to get in contact with me, please do so by emailing me at M Simmons at Lakewood dot E D U. That's M si M M O N s at Lakewood dot E D U. In this course, you're gonna have hands on experience with learning how to program and understand the concepts of programming. We're gonna talk about the introduction of programming and all of the different programming languages, the problem solving process, which is needed doing programming. We're gonna discuss the three basic structures of programming which is sequence selection and repetition. In addition, we'll talk about various types of functions, classes, objects, different data types and just overall being able to identify different things. When you look at different programming languages. I'm excited to teach this course because I have over 15 years of programming experience. I believe that if you're going down the path of I T having the knowledge and knowing how to program will diversify your portfolio and add an additional skill to your resume. So please don't get scared because we're saying that it's programming. But I promise you, it is one course that you will need in your back pocket. A few tips to be successful in this programming class is to one balance your time, but also two practice, practice, practice. In order to be successful with programming, you must practice the exercises, redo them when you make a mistake and try it again. But don't give up throughout this course, I promise you it is worthwhile.
