1. Introduction to Computer Science 115 01/16/15

2. Introduction and Attendance Handout

3. Programming What is a computer program? Instructions to the computer.

4. Programming Language What is a programming language? Language used to write programs.

5. History of C Developed by Kenneth Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan.  Bell Labs  1970 Used to write Unix operating system  Unix was precursor of Linux  Exciting to write an operating system in a language other than Assembly Language Named C because it was a version of B Still important today for writing operating systems and embedded systems.

6. Assignment Read pp. 3-23, 33-39, 41-64 of Bronson Read up to Printing Files in “A Guide for Linux...”  Link off my Computer Science 115 webpage off: cs.boisestate.edu/~jjarboe Do lessons 1.1 to 4.1 of vimtutor  You will need a login and password  Use the vimtutor command Enter and submit program 1  See assignment on my website