Big Ideas in CS110

• Representation: numbers, text, images, sound and more
• Problem Solving:
  • divide and conquer
  • modularity, generality, parameterization
  • conditionals
  • functions
  • notations for computation and algorithms
• Separating structure from presentation (HTML vs CSS)
• A process for creating solutions: requirements, design, coding, and testing
• Encryption, security and privacy
• Analog versus Digital
• Copyright

Medium Size Ideas

• Programming models: wanting to be able to predict the meaning and consequence of code
• The value of standards and accessibility.
• Binary, hexadecimal
• Color representation

Small Ideas

• JavaScript as a programming language
• HTML as a markup language
• CSS as a style language

• Introduction
• Syllabus
• Assignments
• Documentation
• Project

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