Introduction to Programming Concepts

Duration: 7 hours

Prerequisites: Rudimentary knowledge of computer systems. Students should know how to basically operate a computer, browse the world wide web, send and receive email messages, and write and print memos.

Students Will Learn:

Basic computer terminology and jargon
Programming tasks: Analysis and requirements gathering
Programming tasks: Design and planning
Programming tasks: Coding
Programming tasks: Testing
Programming tasks: Deployment/Documentation
Programming tasks: Maintenance
The role of machine code
The role of assembly language
The utility of 1st through 5th Generation Programming
The nature, pros and cons of compiled vs. interpreted languages
The steps of compiling: parsing, optimization, object code, linking, executable images
How to write and execute interpreted scripts
How to write and compile a rudimentary C program
Programming styles: imperative, structured, procedural, object-oriented, declarative, and functional
The utility of stand-alone, distributed, client-server and web-enabled programming
Programming approaches: textual, integrated, visual
Statements, commands, comments and reserved words
Routines, subroutines, functions and libraries
Storage types: integers, floats, Booleans, characters, arrays, structures, objects, pointers
Strong and weak typing
Allocation
Declaring and initializing variables and constants
How binary storage affects data typing
Scope
Inheritance
Operators
Control flow structures
Algorithms
Strings and regular expressions
I/O
GUIs
Events
Frameworks
Debugging
Compile time vs. run time errors
Database programming
Technical communities
Benchmarks
Protocols
Using the command prompt environment to write and compile scripts and programs

Course Description:

Courses that teach programming languages tend to focus on the particulars of each language (as they should), expending only minimal time discussing basic universal programming concepts. Students who are new to programming may find themselves engrossed in discussions of the details of matters such as control flow operators, executable images, third generation languages, and logical operators before they really understand the concepts. This situation can leave the student lost or frustrated or both.

This course is offered for the aspiring programmer so that they will never be left behind for want of having the foundational knowledge that is necessary to learn and advance in a programming career. Students will be exposed to fundamental concepts that are utilized by all programming languages in this course.

Course Overview:

The Essence of Programming The language of computers Computer components Hardware and software Operating systems Programs	The Tasks of Programmers Analysis and requirements gathering Design and planning Coding Testing Deployment/Documentation Maintenance Your job
Types of Programming Computer languages Machine code Early programming The evolution of programming languages First Generation Languages Second Generation Languages Third Generation Languages Fourth Generation Languages Fifth Generation Languages Compilers The process of compiling Practical compiling Interpreted languages Pros and cons of compiled and interpreted languages Imperative programming Structured programming Procedural programming Object-oriented programming Declarative programming Functional programming Stand-alone programs Distributed programming Client-server programming Web-enabled programming Textual programming IDEs Visual programming	Statements and Storage The organization of programs Libraries Declaring and initializing variables and constants Data types: integers, floats, Booleans, characters, arrays, structures, objects, pointers Proper data typing Allocation Static and dynamic data typing Strong and weak data typing Scope Inheritance
Operators and Control Flow Assignment operators Arithmetic operators Relational operators Conditional operators Logical operators Bitwise operators Special operators if, if-then, if-then-else statements case or switch-case statements for or foreach statements while statements do-while statements	The Language of Programming Algorithms Strings Regular expressions Input/Output Graphical user interfaces Events Frameworks Debugging Compile time vs. run time errors Database programming Technical communities Benchmarks Protocols
The Real World Working with the Command Prompt Customizing your environment Help Online documentation Batch files and scripts Installing and using a compiler Man pages Writing a C program Debugging C programs

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