Essentials of Programming

Catalog description

Given the highly digitized environment we live in, organizations are increasingly recognizing the need for programming literacy to leverage computing devices and data-processing applications to improve their performance. Therefore, programming and data analysis are becoming the necessities of today’s highly competitive business environment. This course focuses on the essentials of programming in Python, a powerful and general-purpose programming language that many businesses expect their recruits to be competent in. The course will cover a variety of general programming topics such as data structures, decision controls, loops, and functions. It will also cover popular Python libraries such as numpy, pandas, and matplotlib. The course will prepare students to develop programs that solve real-world problems. Students registering for this course should be prepared for an intense but manageable workload.