index.Rmd

---
title: 'Technical Foundations of Informatics'
author: "[Michael Freeman](http://mfviz.com/#/) and [Joel Ross](http://faculty.washington.edu/joelross/)"
date: "`r format(Sys.Date(), '%B %d, %Y')`"
description: 'The course reader for INFO 201: Technical Foundations of Informatics.'
github-repo: info201/book
url: 'https\://info201.github.io/'
params:
    past.offerings:
      value:
        - quarter: Spring 2017
          url: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1135150
        - quarter: Winter 2017
          url: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1100121
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
output: bookdown::gitbook
monofont: "Source Code Pro"
cover-image: "img/cover-img.png"
favicon: img/favicon.png
---
# About the Book {-}


```{r fig.align='center', echo=FALSE, include=identical(knitr:::pandoc_to(), 'html')}
#to include only in html (centered)
#knitr::include_graphics('img/cover-img.png', dpi = NA)
```
<div class="alert alert-danger">
<p>**Announcement**: Starting in 2019, readings for the INFO 201 course will come from the textbook <em>Programming Skills for Data Science</em>, which is available to UW students for free via <a href="https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-skills-for/9780135159071/" target="_blank">SafariBooksOnline</a> or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0135133106" target="_blank">in print</a>. Unless specifically directed to a section of this online text, you should refer to the <em>Programming Skills for Data Science</em> textbook. 

This resource will remain online for free access into the future.</p></div>

![](img/cover-img.png)
<h2>About the Book</h2>


This book covers the foundation skills necessary to start ___writing computer programs to work with data___ using modern and reproducible techniques. It requires no technical background. These materials were developed for the **INFO 201: Technical Foundations of Informatics** course taught at the [University of Washington Information School](https://ischool.uw.edu/); however they have been structured to be an online resource for anyone hoping to learn to work with information using programmatic approaches.

![Creative Commons License](img/index/by-nc-sa.png)
This book is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).