Technically speaking, the python pictured above has absolutely nothing to do with CS 111 at all: although by the end of the term you'll know how to write computer programs in a programming language called Python, it's actually named after the comedy group Monty Python, not the snake. But, hey, a python looked way cooler than any image of a computer or somebody programming a computer or anything else that I could think of to use here, so, you know. Where was I? Oh, yeah: welcome to the course!