Basics of Computing and Programming

By the end of this course students should be able to:

• understand binary number systems and conversion to other number systems
• understand hexadecimal number systems and conversion to other number systems
• apply numeric and string data types to represent information
• apply variables in program development
• analyze assignment and apply its components in program development
• apply basic I/O operations with different data types
• design expressions using arithmetic operations (including understanding their limitations, such as integer truncation, round-off error, division by zero, narrowing and widening conversions, casting, precedence, and standard math library functions)
• design expressions using relational operators (including understanding floating point equality)
• design expressions using logical operators (including short-circuit)
• design selection statements (including nested selection)
• design repetition statements (including count-controlled versus event-controlled, sentinel-controlled)
• design simple data structures using lists (including using loops with lists and multi-dimensional lists