Lecture -1: Forward - Computing 1 MOOC Richard Buckland UNSW (draft)
Channel: Richard Buckland
Date: 2012-10-07

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Draft version of the warmup lecture for the free and open on-line course Computing 1: The Art of Programming

Computing 1 is an open online version of Richard Buckland's famous UNSW Computing course - Comp1917 "Higher Computing".  Now with added PuzzleQuest!  

Students will learn programming, thinking like a programmer, problem solving, abstraction, software engineering, agile development methods, unit testing, craftsmanship, assembly programming, stack-frames, computer security, memory and pointers and style all using the language C.
 
No programming knowledge is assumed just a sense of adventure and curiosity, and a desire to learn programming and how to create useful and beautiful programs which do amazing things.  

This is the first in a series of courses which will be running over the next 12 months teaching university level computer science and software engineering. It is from UNSW the top Computer Science and Engineering school in Australia and is an updated version of UNSW's "Higher Computing 1", one the of the popular computing courses worldwide on YouTube.

Enroll online at http://www.openlearning.com/courses/unsw/computing1

Computing 1 commences 15 October 2012

This video is chapter (-1) of the course.