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JavaScript sandbox. Here, students can enter scripts and run them. Error messages will not identify the offending line number; but for small scripts, that may not be too bad. The functions print and show should be used in place of console.log.
Resources for Programming Concepts. An annotated list of resources, for instructors.

I101 Bloomington spring 2007. Here is what IUB was doing as early as 2007.
INFO I101 Bloomington, unknown year, using the free book Blown to Bits and other free readings
[IUPUI I101 course description], 2013–14](http://soic.iupui.edu/courses/info-i101/)
IUSB undergraduate informatics courses, course descriptions with links to sample syllabi.
Informatics 41: Informatics Core Course I, fall 2011 at UCI, Fall 2011, with this nice, brief description of informatics: “introducing the field of informatics—computer science with an emphasis on software and systems design and the human, organizational, and social context surrounding what we design.” Uses a book called Picturing Programs: an Introduction to Computer Programming. This uses the Racket dialect of Scheme with a declarative graphics library (“teachpack”) called picturing-programs). Pictures are the primary data type used; numbers and strings are brought up later. How to Design Programs, 2nd ed. is an secondary, optional text.
- Good books, but too advanced for I101; more appropriate for I210.
- For the second semester, winter 2012 they have switched to Python, and say they are switching to Python for all the first-year courses; 45 will use Python and Java. Focus on design, implementation, and communication. Nice list of topics. Textbook: Introduction to Computing Using Python: An Application Development Focus, by Ljubomir Perkovic.
- Informatics 43, fall 2012 is introduction to software engineering.