Programming

This is one of the most important ideas you can remember:

Decompose a problem into smaller parts, diagram a problem. Learn to think sequentially

Programming

Programming is the issuing of instructions to a computer. You must learn how to issue instructions to a computer.

Introduction to programming

• What is a programming language?
• High level languages
• Compiler
• Low level languages
• Translating high-level code to low-level code
• Control flow

Basic understanding

• Variables
• Constants

Basic (primitive) data types

• Objects
• Boolean
• Int
• Float
• Char
• String

Common data structures

• Arrays
• Collections
• Lists
• Dictionaries
• Sets

Control

• Conditionals
  • Operators
• Loops

Basic program organization

• Algorithms
• Functions

Other important ideas in programming

• Regular expressions
• Design Patterns
• Object-Oriented Programming

Separate into simpler constituents.