- Introductions
 - Instructor: Alex, TA: Travis
 - Students
  - self-introductions
  - where are they from, programming experience, favorite video game, what interests them about the course
 
- General Schedule
  - class begins (9:00)
  - 15-minute breaks (10:30 and 2:30)
  - lunch (12:00-1:00)
  - class ends (4:00)
  - evening session (6:00-7:00) - do journals!
  * IMPORTANT: BE ON TIME
  
Open Discussion:
 - How Computers Work - Bird's Eye View
  - Hardware
   - CPU - instructions, mostly math
   - RAM
   - Disks & discs
   - Graphics & Audio
   - Motherboard
   - binaries and bits
  - Operating Systems
   - linux
  - Software
   - binary format of programming instructions (more later)
  - Internet
  
Topic: Introduction to Eclipse
 - Making a project, package, and java file
 - Package Explorer
 - Opening and closing projects, files
 - Resetting the perspective
 
Lab: Hello World

Topic: Programming
 - Computers are Dumb
  - snail example
  - very simple, only understand so many instructions
  - can only do one thing at a time
  - calculus example
 - What is programming?
  - breaking complex ideas into step-by-step instructions, called algorithms
   - programming is a LOT of problem solving
   - a good math background is often helpful
  - writing out the algorithms and supporting information into a programming language
 - Okay, then what?
  - a compiler for the language you wrote your program in turns the language into either assembly or an intermediate language
  - this is then converted into binary that your computer understands

Lab: Wackadot 
 - new project in eclipse, new package
 - start on step 3
 - http://www.fangengine.org/index.php/Tutorial:Wackadot:Eclipse

Topic: Webpages and the internet
 - index.html is the "start" file
 - anchors/links
 
Lab: Making your webpage
 - using Mozilla Composer is easiest
 - files go in ~/public_html/
 - any images that are not linked to on the web (i.e. they are stored on the computer) must also be placed in ~/public_html
  - same goes for JAR files
 - these web pages should be made to look the way you want, but nothing offensive, etc.
 - the point is to keep a daily journal or blog that serves to note what you've learned and accomplished each day
  - your games will also be posted here