If you're a computer science major, you must take this course as early as possible, preferably in your first semester at Adelphi. If you're a computer science minor, you must take this course in your first two years at Adelphi. If you're majoring in mathematics, pre-engineering, or perhaps some other fields, you must take this course at some point. If you're curious about how computers work and what programming is like, this is probably a good course to take. If you have no interest in writing significant programs of your own, but simply want to use Web browsers and search engines, spreadsheets, databases, word processors, etc. and perhaps write your own Web pages, you should probably take CSC 170 instead.