This is a 7 week course, taught by Python expert Ray Smith.  While some minimal computer experience is useful, no previous computer programming experience is necessary as we aim to:

• Learn what computer programming is all about from the programmer's point of view
• Learn how to write and run your own real programs
• Use Python, a very popular and powerful programming language
• Practice some of the actual principles and techniques used by professionals
• Decide if more programming is for you

For this interactive, seven-week course series geared towards adults, a personal laptop will be required, as well as the ability to install Python on said laptop. As an alumnus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ray has a background in programming that has spanned the professional world from MIT and GenRad to IBM and eDial/Alcatel-Lucent and is interested in expanding individual understanding of how coding informs the world in which we live.