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Course Outline
Introduction
- Understanding programming and its relevance
- The history of programming
- Leveraging software for task automation
- The role of programmers and computers in modern enterprises
- Current market trends in programming and development
- Declarative vs. imperative programming: How and What?
- The Turing machine
- Consolidation, compilation, and "just-in-time" interpretation
Review of Logic and Boolean Algebra
- Predicates
- Logical sentences
- Tautologies
- Boolean algebra
Your First Program
- Structural approaches
- Functional approaches
- Object-oriented approaches
- Other paradigms
Primitive Types
- String representation
- Integers
- Floating-point numbers
- Booleans
- Null type
- Empty or uninitialized values
- Strong vs. weak typing
Data Structures
- FIFO and FILO concepts
- Stacks
- Queues
- Declaring arrays and lists
- Indexing
- Maps
- Records
- Trees
Operators
- Assignment operators
- Arithmetic operators
- Comparison operators
- Comparing values across different languages
- Bitwise operators
- Concatenation
- Increment and decrement operators
- Common errors
Program Control Flow
- If and if-else statements
- Goto statements and associated challenges
- Switch statements
- For loops and for-in loops
- While loops and do-while loops
- For-each loops
- Loop termination
Creating Reusable Code
- Functional programming
- Object-oriented programming
Functional Programming Paradigms
- Definition of a function
- Functions versus procedures
- Basics of lambda calculus
- Function arguments
- Returning values
- Functions as arguments
- Anonymous functions
- Closures
- Recursion
Object-Oriented Programming Paradigms
- Mapping real-world entities to philosophy and ontology
- Defining objects and other types
- Class declaration
- Creating class instances
- Fields and object state
- Methods as object behavior
- Abstraction
- Encapsulation
- Inheritance
- Polymorphism
- Association and aggregation
- Delegation and relationship separation between objects
- Modules, packages, and libraries
- API sharing
- Modeling systems using classes and objects
- Describing and implementing class relationships
- Programming from a business perspective
Best Programming Practices
- Pitfalls and common errors
- Translating high-level code to low-level interpretation
- Code optimization
- The KISS principle
- The DRY principle
- The "Worse is Better" principle
- Separating abstraction from implementation
- Methods for detecting logical errors
- Code naming conventions
- Code commenting
- Software metrics
Overview of Technologies and Languages
- Application domains of these languages
- Key language features
- Development prospects
- Future development trends: algorithmic improvements, code optimization, implementation of patterns, design patterns, architectural patterns, and analytical standards
- Reducing control structures through artificial intelligence and automated decision-making
- Choosing the right platform: individual consultations
35 Hours
Testimonials (5)
The Trainer was very patient with everybody, and was willing to repeat if people did not understand. He made sure everybody understood before he continued
Henry - Vodacom
Course - Introduction to Programming
It has given me a solid foundation to depart into the rabbit hole of programming :)
Andrew Jones - Vodacom
Course - Introduction to Programming
The lecturer had extensive knowledge about the subject matter and was willing to share.
Clive Lloyd - Vodacom
Course - Introduction to Programming
The content was sufficiently detailed in order for me to grasp the fundamentals and concepts, and the delivery was well executed.
Anwar - Vodacom
Course - Introduction to Programming
Patience and pace
