In this section, we set the stage for the rest of the course.
We will describe our goals and objectives.
We will then talk about what a programming language is, how computers use them to do operations, and why we have chosen the Python language.
We then present two potential environments for working through this course material:
At the end of this section, we hope you understand what you’d like to accomplish with these lectures and that you are able to start and use a Jupyter notebook.