This course is designed as an introduction to programming for data science.  It is structured to benefit mostly for students who have no or very little programming knowledge and experience.  This course is also used as a preparation for more advanced application courses of data analytics, data visualization, and algorithm.  The aim of this course, hence, is to take students, with no prior experience of thinking in a computational manner, to a point where they are capable of deriving algorithms and codes, using Python, and be ready to solve communication-related problems in the contexts of organizational communication, public relations, and advertising.  This course will provide students with the concepts and skills in computational thinking and data science.  Students will acquire hands-on experience using Python and the popular packages related to data manipulation, processing, and analysis.  Students are required to be able to independently develop Python codes in a professional manner for elementary algorithms in data science.