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Hello, my name is Charles Severance.

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I'm a clinical professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and

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I'm your instructor for this course.

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This course is a little different than every programming course than

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I've ever taught or I've ever taken.

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This course is dedicated to the notion that every single person on the planet

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needs to be able to write programs and can write programs.

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You do not have to have a bunch of math, I do not expect math.

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I do not expect you've taken any other programming classes.

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I don't expect you know anything about computers.

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I think no matter what your background is you can program.

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That’s why it’s called Programming for Everybody.

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I have a couple of goals.

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Certainly, I wanna teach you how to program.

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But actually, what I really wanna do is teach you how to take a programming class.
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Because it turns out that most of the other programming classes in the world

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are kinda difficult.

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They sort of assume way too much.

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And the teachers sort of don’t even realize how much they’re expecting from

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students.

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And so when you're done with this class, you can go and

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take another beginning class.

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And that way you have this as an on ramp to all of your programming activity, and

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so I'm really excited that you're here.

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Another thing that I wanna do is that I wanna teach you how to be a mentor.

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I wanna teach you how to be a teacher of programming.

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So I want you to take all my ideas and I want you to help the next person.

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And the reason is is that learning how to program is a little sort of

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foggy, uncomfortable, you get stuck on things.

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And those things aren't hard, I assure you.

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But when you're stuck on them, they feel really hard.

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And the best way to get unstuck is get some help from somebody.

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And if they're sitting right next to you and they can go, look,

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you just gotta like add two spaces and it's fine.

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And you're like, that saved me a lot of time.

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So I want you to be willing to help somebody else.

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Another thing that's important to me is that I want to create more teachers,

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whether they're at universities, or community colleges, or high schools, or

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even middle schools, or in professional situations.

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I have given you all of the materials for this course at a website.

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They're all licensed under Creative Commons, the slides, the autograders.

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I want you to, in a sense, adopt this textbook, and

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then use my teaching kit so that you can become a teacher of this material.

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Because I don't think that I'm naturally the only teacher of this.

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And in particular, if you don't speak English as your first language,

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you might want to teach this class in your native language.

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And so that's another reason that I give you these materials with a free and

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open copyright, that you can take them an translate them into your language.

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The book has been translated into several languages, and that's really exciting.

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And those books that has been translated are usually free and available,

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you can get print copies that are very inexpensive and all the e-copies are free.

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And so this notion that I create this kit that you can then change the kit,

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you don't have to just take my class, you can change it and you can make it work
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you locally.

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And really,

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the overall goal of this is more than just teaching you one programming class.

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I think that the entire technology marketplace, and to some degree,

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all of business in general, is becoming increasingly technical.

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And too many people young, old, regardless of education, are shut
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out of this sort of club where you need to know something about technology.

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And so that's why we're Programming for Everybody.

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Regardless of geography, regardless of ability to pay, regardless

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of if you have any disabilities, I want Programming for Everybody to be everybody.

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I want to just expand forever the number of people who are capable of

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programming by creating an open, self-sustaining ecosystem and

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have you be part of that self-sustaining ecosystem.

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So again, welcome to class, I look forward to what you do, and

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I look forward to seeing you throughout the class.