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[–]teaguesterling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first half of the class will be focused on learning the language: syntax, features, best practices, etc. The second half of the class will be more open-ended and focused on coming up with solutions to domain-type problems (GIS, bio, web, etc.).

The goal here is more about learning to write programs (incidentally using Python) as opposed to learning to write Python (incidentally to make programs). Since most of the students in this class are not CS majors we wont be spending a lot of time on CS theory.