Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

Abd El-Rahman Hosny Mohammed

Microsoft Student Partner.4th Grade – Faculty of Computers and Information.

Computer Science Department.Assiut University.

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Agenda

- Introduction to Computer Science.- Introduction to Programming.- How to think before writing code ?!- Tips for beginners.- Programming Languages.- Existing Market Careers.

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Introduction to Computer Science

- Computer Science is the approach to computation and application, specifically to the design of computing machines and processes.- A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers.- We can classify computer science into two major parts 1- Theoretical computer science: - Theory of Computation. - Information and Coding Theory. - Algorithms and Data Structures. - Programming Language Theory. - Concurrent, Parallel and Distributed Systems. - Databases and Information Retrieval.

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2- Applied computer science. - Artificial Intelligence. - Computer Architecture and Engineering. - Computer Graphics and Visualization. - Computer Security and Cryptography. - Health Informatics. - Software Engineering.

- The first step to enter the computer science world is to have passionate about these fields.- Decide to learn, learn and learn.- Not only you have to learn, but also you have to be productive and share new ideas with science community.- The most basic topic to learn is to know how to write a software in any programming language.

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Introduction to Programming

- Programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining source code of computer programs.- Programming was a difficult task in the early eras, as machines were not programmable at first.- With the revolution of the computer science, programming became an easy task that every one can learn.- Your ultimate goal from the programming process is to create a set of instructions that computers use to perform specific operations.- To write source code, a programmer has to be aware of different subjects including the application domain, algorithms and others.

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How to th

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Programming Languages

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Structured Programmin

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Functional Programmin

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Logical Programmin

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Object-Oriented

Programming

Existing Market Careers.

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Programming

Databases

Networks

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Operating Systems

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?Time for Questions

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To Be Continued ..- Introduction to Microsoft .NET

Framework.

- Previous State of Affairs.

- The .NET Solution.

- What’s Next ?!