Introduction to Computer Science I

Course Code

CMSC 14100 91

Course Description

This course is the first of a pair of courses that are designed to introduce students to computer science.

It will help you build computational skills, such as abstraction and decomposition, and will cover basic algorithms and data structures. You will be introduced to the basics of programming in Python including designing and calling functions, designing and using classes and objects, writing recursive functions, and building and traversing recursive data structures. You will also gain basic facility with the Linux command-line and version control.

Course Criteria

¹ UChicago students can self-register.

² Visiting students and pre-college students apply through the same application.