My path of following the course Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

Totay I have finished the first Lecture Video Goals of the course; what is computation; introduction to data types, operators, and variables and wanna write a blog to record what I have just learned.

Please forgive my poor English,if fortunately there is someone happening to find this blog , as I,a freshman,have just been tested by CET4 three days ago.
By the way,I have to say Prof. Eric Grimson is really humorous and his speaking is not difficult to understand though it’s so fastly that he speaks.
OK,let’s turn to the subject.

Preamble

First,the Prof listed four skills :computational thinking,understanding code,understand abilities & limits,make problems into computation.
Then,he told some tips:take your own notes,recitation matters.
He said knowledge could be divided into two kinds:declarative knowledges,usually the statement of facts;imperative knowledges,usually the description of how to do sth.
A fix-programmed computer could do specific things.

Program is like a recipe.
Given a fixed set of primitives ,we can program anything.
How to design recipe,how to structure recipe.
There is no best language.
Turing compatibility.

THREE DIMENSION:

1.High-low.The low-level language is close to computer and what it does is moving pieces of date from one location of memory to another.
2.General-targeted.The general one has abroad range of application while the targeted one has a very specific application.
3.Interpreted-compiled.(翻译是解释-汇编）(source code checker object code).

Then,some concepts:

syntax:which are legal expression.“cat dog boy”
static semantics:which programs are meaningful.“my desk is Susan”
semantics:what the program mean,what happens if I run it.
(We should have a style:easy to spot the places that cause those semantic bugs to occur.)
values,primitive date elements,commands,statements.

Date types:

3 is integer(int)
3.14 is a floating point (float)
‘abc’ is a string
3/5=0 but 3.0/5=0.5999999998(note the type)

Tomorrow I will continue!