Overarching Features of Python: Scripting Language, Imperative, Object-Oriented, Functional, More Python Overview - Dynamic Typing, Use of Whitespace and Tabs, Python Environment, Execution of Basic Statements, Calling Methods Using Objects (And Anonymous Objects Like String Literals), Evaluating Assignments, Python Strings, String Methods, and Lists/Sublists (Including Index Wrapping), Strings as Lists of Characters in Python, Replacing Characters Within a List, Mutable Lists Vs. Immutable Lists, Writing the Gatherdivisors Function, Which Lists All the Divisors of the inputted Numbers: Function/Line Syntax (Incl. Tabs), for Loop Syntax and Iterables, Using and Importing Python Modules, Python Dictionaries, Adding and Retrieving Data from Dictionaries, How Heterogeneous Data Is Allowed inside Dictionaries, Look Ahead: Python Libraries, More About Dictionaries
Topics include: Advanced memory management features of C and C++; the differences between imperative and object-oriented paradigms; the functional paradigm (using LISP) and concurrent programming (using C and C++); brief survey of other modern languages such as Python, Objective C, and C#.
Prerequisites: Programming and problem solving at the Programming Abstractions level. Prospective students should know a reasonable amount of C++. You should be comfortable with arrays, pointers, references, classes, methods, dynamic memory allocation, recursion, linked lists, binary search trees, hashing, iterators, and function pointers. You should be able to write well-decomposed, easy-to-understand code, and understand the value that comes with good variable names, short function and method implementations, and thoughtful, articulate comments.
