Calendar Description

Assumed Background

Learning objectives completed before this course.

Object-oriented programming

Given a set of requirements, be able to formulate an object-oriented solution, identifying appropriate objects, attributes, behaviors, and associations between objects (inheritance, composition), and making appropriate use of inheritance and override in method implementations.
Understand the advantages of object-oriented programming for encapsulation and reuse.
Be able to navigate a moderately sized existing class hierarchy, for example a GUI API.

General programming

Be able to construct a complete application including user interaction and the file system.
Be able to build an application using the Model/View/Controller pattern.
Have an u

nderstanding of scoping as an explicit concept.

Data structures

Have experience with simple abstract data types such as stacks, lists, sets, and dictionaries, and an understanding why the abstractions are useful.
Be able to solve simple problems involving elementary singly and doubly-linked data structures such as lists and trees.

Recursion

Understand the recursive view simple data structures such as trees, and be able to apply the corresponding recursion pattern.
Use recursion to devise divide-and-conquer solutions to problems without obvious iterative solutions, for example tree traversals and maze pathfinding

Efficiency

Have an intuitive, operational understanding of basic asymptotic complexity, for example quadratic vs linear time, but without a formal definition of "big-O".

Testing and debugging

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