OIM3600 - Computer Science for Business Students

Session 02 (8/28)

Today's Agenda

• Welcome/News/Announcements
• Lectures:
  • What is this course about?
  • Code Representations

Welcome, new friend! How are you doing?

Please introduce yourself, including:

• Who are you? Where did you come from?
• Which year are you in? What’s your best moment at Babson so far?
• What is your concentration? Are you going to rule the world with that?
• Why did you decide to take this class?
• Do you have any programming experience?
• How was your summer? Did you do anything exciting or just binge on Netflix?
• How can we remember you? Tell a fun fact or a boring fact about yourself.

Welcome/News/Announcements

• You should have read the course syllabus.
  • No final exam.
  • Attendance is mandatory.
  • Final project will be introduced in the second half of the semester.
• Please meet with me in person during office hours at least once this semester.
• Communications:
  • Slack - for debugging, clarifications, real-time discussion, casual chat, etc.
  • Email - please specify your course number
    • Subject title example: OIM3600: Question about my GitHub settings
• Questions?

Lecture

The fact that everything involving computers is just 0's and 1's. It doesn't seem possible.

• Code