Title: Introduction
Course: Programming Fundamentals I > Section: Competency Modules

Competency 1, like other competencies, will have three distinct activities for the students.  The first activity is Read It!  This activity identifies reading resource(s) for this module.  The second learning section includes videos that the students can Watch It! to learn the material in this module.  The third learning section asks you to Do it!  This is a hands-on Lab Assignments for the concepts learned in the module.

Important Note: The information in these modules is meant to supplement the textbook NOT replace it!  You MUST still read the textbook.  Going through the modules alone is not enough preparation for the tests.

Competency one gives a very concrete and easy-to-understand explanation of how computers work, how data is stored and manipulated, and why we write programs in high-level languages. An introduction to Python, interactive mode, script mode, and the IDLE environment is also given.