This course aims to provide an introduction to information technology (IT) and forms the entry point to IT-related courses at Cross-Disciplinary Strategies. Given the prevalence and pervasiveness of information technology in our contemporary societies, getting an understanding, including some sense what it means to write software code, can help tremendously to start understanding how IT shapes our everyday lives. Consequently, the focus of the course is mainly on providing an entry point to programming.

Given the scope of this course, the course can only provide a first dive into programming, not comparable to the depth and breadth usually taught at, e.g., a computer science education. If, however, you are interested in deepening your programming skills, die Angewandte offers other courses and facilities (i.e. labs). Details on that will be provided during the course.

This course will use python as programming language. This has several reasons: First, python is relatively approachable for newcomers to programming. Second, python is a versatile language, being used for web development, scientific computing, data science, in machine learning/artificial intelligence and much more. Third, several other courses at Angewandte use python, so it is easy to continue with python in other courses.

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This course will only be offered in English.

Students from other study programs or other universities are welcome, provided the room capacity permits.