Introductory slides to accompany my workshop on Intro to Programming - Javascript.

1. PROGRAMMING FOR Cindy Royal
Texas State U
COMMUNICATORS cindyroyal.com
@cindyroyal
www.slideshare.net/cindyroyal

2. WHY SHOULD I LEARN TO PROGRAM?
 It's fun!
 Helps you think logically through problems
 Important to continue to improve tech skills
 Good to learn about programming beyond html/ css
 Communicate with programmers
 Understand potential of applications
 Make websites respond to user interaction
 Build apps and games
 Access information on the Internet
 Organize and present data
 Validate forms
 It’s fun!

3. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
 Fortran, LISP and COBOL 1950s
 Basic 1964
 Pascal 1970
 C++/Perl 1980s
 Programming in the Internet Age ‘90s
 Object-oriented (collections of interacting objects)
 Python
 Ruby
 PHP
 HTML/CSS – markup languages
 Web Frameworks – rapid application development
 JavaScript - 1995

4. PLACES TO LEARN MORE
Codecademy.com
Lynda.com
W3 Schools