University of Melbourne

September 7, 2016

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Instructors: Nikki Rubinstein

Helpers: Alistair Walsh, Warda Najam

General Information

Introductory programming concepts for programming novices.

The goal of this lesson is to teach novice programmers basic programming concepts. The workshop will cover data types, data structures, functions and control flow (don't worry if you don't know what these are; you will by the end of the workshop!). After attending this workshop, you will be well set to attend any beginner programming language course.

Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous programming knowledge.

Where: Collaborative Learning Space 1, Old Arts, University of Melbourne. Get directions with Google Maps.

Requirements: **Participants must bring a laptop** that can access the internet.

Contact: Please email nicole.unimelb@gmail.com for more information.


Workshop content

The training materials used for this workshop can be found here

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Survey

Please be sure to complete this survey at the end of the workshop.


Setup

Requirements: **Participants will be required to bring their own laptop**.

Wifi: Access to the wifi network will depend on whether you're affiliated with the Univerity of Melbourne. University of Melbourne staff/students can connect to the UniWireless network; instructions on how to do this and where to get assistance can be found here. Attendees from other Australian universities should find out (from the IT website of their home institution) how to connect to the Eduroam wireless network.

For visitors who are not from a tertiary institution, the visitor login details for the Visitor network are:
  • network: introductoryrrstudioworkshop
  • password: Jca55i