The Internet is a great place to learn and innovate. With the advent of social media networks, it even easier to learn, innovate and additionally fraternize with peers on a global level. This opens a great opportunity to hone our skills. As my contribution to the knowledge base of this global "thing", I intend to start a beginners' course in Computer Programming and Allied Technologies on this group and for members of this group.
The course will take the normal pattern of posts. I will post at least a topic each day and respond to comments/questions. Hopefully, in about two weeks, the basic course will be over. Then, judging from your responses, we may move to higher and advanced stuff together.
So, come on, lets learn and innovate together.
Are you guys with me If yes, hit like or comment.....

Thanks.

REQUIREMENTS:

Okay...sequel to my last post. There are few requirements for the course. As you all know it is an Introduction to Computer Programming, by that, the single most important requirement is the availability of a computer. Others are:

- Good internet connection
- Complete working fingers (trust me, u will need them)
- Natural curiosity to know how things work
- Good problem-solving skills
- And lots of patience

ETHICS:
The course is an interactive one. Any suggestion should be posted on the comments of this post.

So, what do u guys think? Any suggestion

Thanks.....
P.S: Jokes are allowed....lol

Lesson 1:

Computer programming is all about giving the computer instructions to perform some tasks. These tasks ranges from trivial ones like "what is the average age of students in a class" to complex ones like Artificial Intelligence.

Don't get it wrong, computers are obviously powerful machines. But they are very stupid, I mean it. As a programmer, you will be faced with this stupidity on many level in your career. The greatest strength of computers lies in the speed and accuracy of its computations. And these computations are designed by programmers.

So, programming is about teaching a zombie to work for you. But first of, you should know how to do the work yourself by hand or at least have an idea on how the work can be done. This idea is what computer scientist call "Algorithms". We will get to that in due course in this tutorial.

We give instructions to the computer in a form that it can understand. That is, in a language. Now, the language a computer understands basically is tied to the architecture of it's microprocessor(CPU). This is called "Machine Language". It is just a sequence of "zeroes" and "ones". Binary language, if you like. Well, let me say this, Machine Language is very difficult to write with and it has limitations. We will not be concerned with it.

Now, others forms of languages have been invented to walk around the limitations of Machine languages. These are called "High level Languages". They are human friendly, meaning that, instead of writing long sequences of binary digits, we can program in simple and unambiguous English language. Thank GOD!!!!

Examples of high level languages are Java, C++, Pascal, PHP, Python.

Okay! I can almost hear you asking how exactly do you write instruction and pass it into the computer.Well, I can't give a general answer. How it is done depends on the high level language itself. But, suffice it to say that, you have to write the program in as a text file, "compile" it and run it somehow. Don't worry, if you can't understand it now. It will be the subject of the next lesson, where I introduce the high level language that we will be learning.

SUMMARY: Computers are STUPID! If you want to get anything useful done, you have to specify in absolute details when you write programs. People still use Machine languages but in highly specialized applications, but majority work with high level languages.

Thanks.....

Thanks for the effort and dedication; soon your students will be many.

Lesson 2

Good morning guys, I hope the Lesson 1 of this tutorial series is well assimilated, if not, please feel free to ask questions on the comments' section. It is important you understand the Lessons in incremental fashion as the Lessons build on knowledge from the previous Lessons.

Okay. In the last Lesson, I introduced the concept of computer languages and kinda payed emphasis on high level languages, which are human friendly to write. That being said, let me introduce (in this lesson) the particular programming language we will be examining in this tutorial.

The language is "Python". Python is a programming language that has the rare advantage of being simple, agile and powerful. It's simplicity makes it easy for beginners to appreciate programming languages. Learn more about python at www.python.org.

INSTALLATION:
To make available the environment for programming, you must have it installed. I assume that all of you here use Windows OS. So I will outline the installation process for that platform.

- Go to www.python.org/download/. Click on Python 2.7.5 (there are other versions there) to download.

- After download, install. Use default settings.

- Right Click on My Computer. Select properties > Advanced system settings (on the left of the screen).

- On the dialog box (System Properties). Click on Environment Variables.

- On the dialog box (Environment variables). Scroll down the box (system variables). Select path and click Edit.

- On the Edit System Variable box, edit the variable value by adding ";C:\Program File\Python27" (there is a semi colon in the front). Please, do not delete what is there originally, just add the string above.

N.B: If you did not install with the default settings or you installed another version of Python, add the path to the folder in your computer containing the Python files.

- Click OK on all open dialog box boxes.

Now, you are good to go.

RUNNING THE PYTHON INTERPRETER:

In order to follow up the code snippet in this tutorials, you need to "fire" up the Python interpreter and try codes. To do this.

- On your computer keyboard, press the combination of "Windows Key and R". Windows key is the button with Windows Logo on it, normally the second key before the long button. That is, press Windows Key + R.

- A dialog box opens (titled Run). Type "cmd" and press ENTER.

- A window with black background opens. You will see a prompt. Now type "python". Press ENTER.

In my computer, it returns something like this (yours may be different).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Python 2.7.3 (default, April 10 2012, 23:31:06)[MSC v.1500 32bit(intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright","credits","license" for more information.
>>>

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
You are inside the python interpreter. As an example,
Type and press ENTER.
----------------------------------------------------------
>>> print 23+34
----------------------------------------------------------

N.B: Don not type the ">>>" and no space before the "print" statement.

Now, you can recognize one use of the python interpreter. It can be used as a simple handy calculator.

***Sighs***
I will stop here for now. Ask your questions. (E no easy oh...lol)

This topic shouldn't be, Many of such topics already exist!

dsypha: This topic shouldn't be, Many of such topics already exist!

So, you are saying this topic is irrelevant

alcuin:

So, you are saying this topic is irrelevant

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e mandman:
it is not,many of dos topics av entad pages...dt new komers knt comprehend.am on dis

The truth is You don't need any of these topics to learn. Pick a text-book or at worse a pdf. am yet to see how ths topic is to help. The O.P surely won't finish one complete language for You!

dsypha:

The truth is You don't need any of these topics to learn. Pick a text-book or at worse a pdf. am yet to see how ths topic is to help. The O.P surely won't finish one complete language for You!

Quite true but sometimes it is better to have an active online community, so you can ask questions and get responded to. All these while you may be studying privately. In fact, I encourage students to study privately.

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Please @op i have been following your tutorial and i must confess its quite educative and informative. Furthermore i'm fully interested in this teaching(s) because i'm eager to learn computer programming.I 'll like to ask you a couple of questions.1.What are the main benefits of programming?.2.Where can we apply computer programming and how can it be applied.3.How exactly do we write programs (the stepwise procedure) 4.What are the basic knowledge i need to have in order to start writing programs for a beginner like me.Please i will appreciate your answers to these questions.

dabiko: Please @op i have been following your tutorial and i must confess its quite educative and informative. Furthermore i'm fully interested in this teaching(s) because i'm eager to learn computer programming.I 'll like to ask you a couple of questions.1.What are the main benefits of programming?.2.Where can we apply computer programming and how can it be applied.3.How exactly do we write programs (the stepwise procedure) 4.What are the basic knowledge i need to have in order to start writing programs for a beginner like me.Please i will appreciate your answers to these questions.

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Erm pls op no stop, i dey enjoy ur lectures. Dont mind the badu belles. Fire on!

So, next update ..!!?

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Pls pls pls no stp na na me dey begg all dis ppl no beg wella abeg no stp na aaa take baba GOD beg u

continue na for my sake, at least make I be ur accomplishment *I dey my knee dey post this commebt*

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alcuin:

So, you are saying this topic is irrelevant

pls continue jare. Don't stop .it is relevant, different,and understanding

I've bn taught of new things here personally & I dnt want 2 miss dis opportunity of upgrading myself in d community of programmers. Can u pls give me ur digit so as to contact u 4 better training? Pls dnt say NO!
Ur Student.

Where alcuin be. Na e no gud lyk dis o

Kudos man...thumbs up my brother. when is the next lecture?

ajibel pls take over form aulcin, Nigeria's Python programmer must go on

Preboy: ajibel pls take over form aulcin, Nigeria's Python programmer must go on

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Ajibel:

i wish i could bro buh i cant buh i'd come up with sth nice

pls do

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