Introduction to programming
According to research, students learn best when they take an active part in what is to be learned. They love the cool fun way to learn things so asking them questions and making the class interactive would really help you in the introduction to Programming.
So what is programming?
What is programming?
The process of developing and implementing various sets of instructions to enable a computer to do a certain task. These instructions are considered computer programs and help the computer to operate smoothly. The language used to program computers is not understood by an untrained eye.
Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/computer-programming.html
Instructor should engage about the opinion if they heard anything about programming and explain further with examples if necessary. ( You can use a site like YouTube/Facebook which all students would be familiar with. A mockup can be used to illustrate how these sites work)
Programming Languages
A programming language is a vocabulary and set of grammatical rules for instructing a computer or computing device to perform specific tasks. The term programming language usually refers to high-level languages, such as BASIC, C, C++, Python, COBOL, Java, FORTRAN, Ada, and Pascal.
Read more: https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/programming_language.html
Instructor at this point should compare and contrast programming languages to everyday human languages like english.
Programming Careers
- Software application developer
- Web developer
- Mobile developer
- Computer systems engineer
- Database administrator
- Computer systems analyst
- Data Scientist
- Software quality assurance (QA) engineer
- Business intelligence analyst
- Computer programmer and more
Read more: https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/technology/blog/programming-careers-for-coding-connoisseurs/
Instructor should highlight the role of the various careers if need be not forgetting programming evangelist/educationist as a career.You can go forward to explain the following as some students might have confusion between programming and coding.
Coding is the process of using a programming language to get a computer to behave how you want it to. Every line of code tells the computer to do something, and a document full of lines of code is called a script.