Term 1: Weeks 1-10

• Weeks 1-2: Background
• Week 3-4: Chapter 1 pp. 1-10
  • Overview
  • First Step: Understand the problem!
  • What's a "high-level" computer language?
  • Watch for the new technical terms!
  • Caution: On Program Style
• Week 5-7: Chapter 2 pp. 11-19
  • What's all this about "Boolean" variables?
  • Making a statement!
  • Branching and Looping
  • A Shady Character?
  • The newline Character - and other vagaries!
  • Variables, Data Types and Arrays
  • The Dreaded Array Indexing Bugs
• Week 8-10: Chapter 2 pp. 20-26
  • What's a function anyway?
  • Moving Data Around
  • Recursion