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
• Low level languages
• Translating high-level code to low-level code
• Compiler

Basic understanding

• Variables
• Constants

Basic (primitive) data types

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

Common data structures

• Arrays
• Collections
• Lists
• Dictionaries
• Sets
• Tuple

Control Flow

In computer science, control flow (or flow of control) is the order in which individual statements, instructions or function calls of an imperative program are executed or evaluated.

• Conditionals
  • Operators
• Loops

Basic program organization

• Algorithms
• Functions

Other important ideas in programming

• Regular expressions
• Design Patterns
• Object-Oriented Programming

Separate into simpler constituents.