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# 1 Introduction to Computation

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We start by discussing the core software development concepts such as computers, program-
ming languages and algorithms.

## Required Readings

- Guttag Ch 1: Getting Started
- Wing, Jeannette M. 2006. "Computational Thinking." Communications of the ACM, 49 (3): 33–35. doi: [10.1145/1118178.1118215](https://doi.org/10.1145/1118178.1118215)

## Additional Readings

- Wickham & Grolemund Ch [1: Introduction](https://r4ds.hadley.nz/intro.html)
- McKinney Ch 1: Preliminaries

## Tutorial

- Installation of Python and R
- Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks and alternative IDEs
- Work in command-line interfaces (CLIs)
- GitHub Workflow