Eight Sessions: Thursdays at 3:15 pm until 4:45 pm,
from January 28, 2016 to March 17, 2016.
Ninety
minutes per session.
The pacing, depth, and order that we cover these topics may vary significantly, depending on the needs and desires of the class members.
| Session 1, Jan. 28, 2016: Algorithms | Topics: Long Division as done by a human Division by Repeated Subtraction as done by a human Pseudocode for the Modulo algorithm Programming Elements as illustrated by the pseudocode |
| Session 2, Feb. 4, 2016: Writing Code | Topics: Development Strategy Modulo program implemented in QuickBasic Prime algorithm in pseudocode Prime program implemented in QuickBasic User Friendliness - adding prompts to the program |
| Session 3, Feb. 11, 2016: Logic Errors (Bugs) and Modularization |
Topics: IF statements Typical progression of a programming prObject Bugs in the Prime program Prime algorithm implemented in QuickBasic with protective IF-ELSE-ENDIF The Programming Process All Programming Elements |
| Session 4, Feb. 18, 2016: Computability and Data Structures |
Topics: Modularization - isolation of the modulo code into a subroutine Prime algorithm implemented in QuickBasic fully modularized Prime algorithm implemented in Java Computability - space and time constraints Improvements of the Prime algorithm in QuickBasic Prime algorithm implemented in console Visual Basic |
| Session 5, Feb. 25, 2016: History of Programming and Object Oriented Programming |
Topics: Comparison of Programming Languages using the modulo algorithm History of Programming Languages Object Oriented Programming, implemented by Visual Programming IDE's Prime algorithm implemented in Object Oriented Visual Basic Object Oriented Libraries in Microsoft's Visual Studio and Java |
| Session 6, Mar. 3, 2016: Network Programming | Topics: Data Structures - arrays and the Sieve of Eratosthenes Data Structures - advanced Internet and Telephone Networks Network Based Programs - applications, apps, and HTML Prime implemented in HTML and JavaScript Prime implemented as an App |
| Session 7, Mar. 10, 2016: Logic and Binary Numbers | Topics: Binary Arithmetic Logic and Logic Gates |
| Session 8, Mar. 17, 2016: Machine Code | Topics: Definition of a Computer Machine Code and Assembly Language Unstructured Programming - JMP (jump) instead of IF and WHILE The Computer Simulator running the modulo algorithm |