IIT Bombay

Computer Programming
Prof. Deepak B Phatak
Prof. Supratik Chakraborty
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Bombay

Session: Preamble

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Gadgets and Machines
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• Using gadgets
• What we need to know
• Using a Radio
• Do not need to know theory

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Instructing a Computer
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• Computer as a machine
• Performs computational tasks
• ‘Instructing’ a computer
• Similar to issuing a written procedure to people
• For computers, such procedures are called programs

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Things to follow in the first week
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• A conceptual model of computer

• Mr. Buddhuram Dumbo, and the programs he executes
• Architecture of a computer,
• Handling primitive data types
• Our first computer program in C++
• Introduction to Code::Blocks
• Your tool for writing and running C++ programs

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Welcome to the exciting world of computers!

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