Who Should Take This Course

This course is intended primarily for people who have not previously studied computer programming, both CS majors and non-majors. For non-majors, this course counts towards your math/science distribution requirement. Students who have passed at least a semester (half a year) of computer programming with a ``B'' or better, or who have a strong math background, may skip this course and go straight to CSC 171, or they may take this course anyway; some of the concepts will be familiar, but they'll probably still learn a lot.

If you're a computer science or information systems major and haven't previously studied programming, you should take this course as early as possible, preferably in your first semester at Adelphi. If you're a computer science minor or a math major and haven't previously studied programming, you should take this course in your first two years at Adelphi. If you're curious about how computers work, what programming is like, and how programmers think, this is a good course to take. If you have no interest in writing 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 take CSC 170 instead.