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+# Lecture 1 --- Introduction to C++, STL, Strings
+
+## Instructors
+
+Dr. Jidong Xiao, xiaoj8@rpi.edu
+Dr. Neha Keshan, keshan@rpi.edu
+
+## Instructional Support Coordinator
+Shianne Hulbert, hulbes@rpi.edu
+
+Personal/confidential matters – contact us through the list (fastest reply, keeps us coordinated): ds_instructors@cs.rpi.edu
+For general course questions, please use the Discussion Forum:
+https://submitty.cs.rpi.edu/courses/f23/csci1200/forum
+
+## Today
+
+- Brief Discussion of Website & Syllabus
+- Crash Course in C++ Syntax
+- Getting Started in C++ & STL, C++ Syntax, STL Strings
+
+### Transitioning from Python to C++ (from CSCI-1100 Computer Science 1)
+
+- Python is a great language to learn the power and flexibility of programming and computational problem solving.  This semester we will work in C++ and study lower level programming concepts, focusing on details including efficiency and memory usage.
+- Outside of this class, when working on large programming projects, you will find it is not uncommon to use a mix of programming languages and libraries.  The individual advantages of Python and C++ (and Java, and Perl, and C, and UNIX bash scripts, and ... ) can be combined into an elegant (or terrifyingly complex) masterpiece.
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