General Usage of Computer for Programming

concept of an “operating system”
use of ssh to access strauss
interpreter
interpreter vs. compilation
editor
shell

• shell commands: cp, mv, rm, 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
  • recognize function calls
  • design recipe
  • write function using design recipe
  • distinguish between function header, body, and call
  • distinguish between actual and formal parameters/arguments
  • return value
  • parameters
  • 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
  • lists/arrays
  • dictionaries (python)
  • structs

pass-by-reference-value vs. pass-by-value

addresses

pointers

constants

simple file I/O

pre-defined function libraries, including testing library

strings, and string functions

classes

• constructor
• str, repr

functional decomposition

scope 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