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An introductory "learning by doing" programming course for scientists, engineers, and everybody else who will need basic programming skills in their studies and careers. We cover the fundamentals of structured, modular, and (to some extent) object-oriented programming as well as important design principles and software development techniques. We will apply our shiny new programming skills by developing computational solutions in the Python programming language to a number of real-world problems from a variety of disciplines. This course may not be used for the CS major or minor requirements, except as a substitute for 600.107. Summer only: Students will be expected to do significant programming (15-20 hours/wk). Attendance and participation is required. Students must have a laptop on which to install and run the programming environment.