Introduction to Programming for Business Applications

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Introduction to computer programming and data analysis utilizing an object-oriented programming language. Topics include input/output statements, variables, arithmetic and logical operations, decision statements, loop structures, functions, data formats (csv, json, xml), web scraping and libraries for data manipulation/analysis. In this course, problem solving and algorithm development skills will be honed on assignments involving business applications. O'Malley School of Business students can take this course to satisfy a three credit Liberal Arts Elective requirement.