Programming Foundations: Beyond the Fundamentals

Dive deeper into the foundational concepts, practices, and terminology of programming. Learn how to work with collections, use external code, find and fix bugs, and more.

Introduction

• Broadening your knowledge of programming fundamentals
• What you should know
• Configuring your environment

1. Collections

• Understanding collections
• Creating simple collections
• Creating more complex collections
• Working with collections
• Collections in other languages
• Challenge: Working with a collection
• Solution: Working with a collection

2. Iteration

• Introduction to iteration
• Iterating through collections
• Iterating to a custom endpoint
• Challenge: Creating a for loop
• Solution: Creating a for loop

3. Using External Code

• Comparing types of external code
• Working with a module
• Understanding libraries and frameworks

4. Working with Strings

• Combining and manipulating strings
• Finding patterns in strings
• Creating regular expressions
• Challenge: Strings
• Solution: Strings

5. Planning a Program

• Choosing a code style
• Writing pseudocode

6. Input and output

• Introduction to input and output
• Working with file input and output

7. Debugging

• Introduction to debugging
• Debugging code in an IDE
• Interpreting error messages
• Debugging without error messages
• Creating a test case
• Challenge: Debugging
• Solution: Debugging

8. Object Orientation

• Introduction to object-oriented programming
• Using built-in classes
• Creating custom classes and objects

9. Advanced Topics

• Advanced topics in programming
• Memory management across languages
• Introduction to multithreading
• Introduction to algorithms

Conclusion

• Continuing your programming quest