General Usage of Computer for Programming

• concept of an “operating system”
• use of ssh to access strauss
• interpreter
  • interpreter vs. compilation: running in interpreter vs running a script
• editor
• Unix
  • shell commands: cp, mv, rm, cd, script, pwd, chmod, ls, cat, mkdir, rmdir, more
  • directories
  • command line arguments
• basic html and chmod to create simple web pages

Computer architecture

• parts of the computer (computer organization)
• registers,cache,ram,disk
• file system - directories and files

Programming Constructs

• expressions
• statements
• data types
• variables
• functions
  • pre-defined function libraries, including testing library
  • recognize function calls
  • design recipe
  • functional decomposition
  • write function using design recipe
  • distinguish between function header, body, and call
  • distinguish between actual and formal parameters/arguments
  • return value
  • parameters
  • scope
  • pass-by-reference-value vs. pass-by-value
  • nested
  • recursive
  • parameter default values
  • optional args
  • lambda
  • doc strings (python)
• assignment statements
• operators, operator precedence and associativity, order of operations
• truth values, boolean expressions, logical operators;
  • relation to zero
• conditionals (if, if/else, switch, ternary operator)
• iteration
  • definite iteration (for loops, while loops)
  • indefinite iteration (while loops)
  • comprehensions (python)

• Data
  • strings and string functions
  • lists/arrays
  • dictionaries (python)
  • structs
  • addresses
  • pointers
  • constants
  • simple file I/O
  • classes
    • constructor
    • str, repr

linear search binary search sorting: either selection or insertion sort; either merge or quicksort finding min, max, count, sum, average of a sequence of data values

(from either an input file or an array).	 	 	 	 

menu driven programs linked lists

Optional:

• DeMorgan's law
• binary, hex, octal, decimal number systems
• structured programming (sequence, selection, and repetition are sufficient, goto not needed. Bohm and Jacopini, Dijkstra letter).

Resources: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html#intermezzo-coding-style