Programming: for REALLY beginners!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: What is a computer program?

Lecture 3: Short installation guide

Lecture 4: Understanding outputs

Chapter 2: Variables

Lecture 1: Variables: Theory

Lecture 2: Variables: Strings

Lecture 3: Variables: Strings from Input

Lecture 4: Variables: Integers and Reals

Lecture 5: Variables: Booleans

Lecture 6: Operations

Lecture 7: Variables: Exercise

Chapter 3: The Decision

Lecture 1: IF Statement: Theory

Lecture 2: IF Statement: Part 1

Lecture 3: IF Statement: Part 2

Lecture 4: IF Statement: Exercise

Chapter 4: Loops Loops Loops

Lecture 1: Loops: Theory

Lecture 2: Loops: FOR 1 to 10

Lecture 3: Slow, Step, Watch, Break

Lecture 4: Loops: FOR only odds – first version

Lecture 5: Loops: FOR only odds – second version

Lecture 6: Loops: WHILE not 9 yet

Lecture 7: Loops: WHILE only odds

Lecture 8: Loops: WHILE – Is it even or is it odd?

Chapter 5: A, r, r, a, y, s

Lecture 1: Arrays: Theory

Lecture 2: Arrays: using a FOR loop

Lecture 3: Arrays: using a WHILE loop

Lecture 4: Arrays: Exercise – Reversing an array

Chapter 6: Functions()

Lecture 1: Functions: Theory

Lecture 2: Functions: max2()

Lecture 3: Functions: max3()

Lecture 4: Functions: Keep adding

Lecture 5: Functions: Exercise – Pocket Calculator

Chapter 7: Fun And Data Structures

Lecture 1: Fun With Programming

Lecture 2: Array Statistics

Lecture 3: Array Statistics: Solution

Lecture 4: Reverse String

Lecture 5: Reverse String: Solution

Lecture 6: Counting Characters

Lecture 7: Counting Characters: Solution

Lecture 8: Phone Number to Text

Lecture 9: Phone Number to Text: Solution

Lecture 10: Prime Number

Lecture 11: Prime Number: Solution

Lecture 12: Greatest Common Divisor

Lecture 13: Greatest Common Divisor: Solution

Lecture 14: Decimal to Binary

Lecture 15: Decimal to Binary: Solution

Lecture 16: Asterisk Square

Lecture 17: Asterisk Square: Solution

Lecture 18: Palindromes

Lecture 19: Palindromes: Solution

Chapter 8: Algorithms and Data Structures

Lecture 1: Simple Algorithms and Data Structures

Lecture 2: Greedy

Lecture 3: Greedy: Solution

Lecture 4: Sorting

Lecture 5: Sorting: Solution – Version 1

Lecture 6: Sorting: Solution – Version 2

Lecture 7: Stack

Lecture 8: Stack: Solution

Lecture 9: Queue

Lecture 10: Queue: Solution

Lecture 11: Recursion

Lecture 12: Recursion: Solution

Lecture 13: Divide and Conquer

Lecture 14: Divide and Conquer: Solution

Chapter 9: Pseudocode

Lecture 1: Pseudocode: Theory

Lecture 2: Pseudocode: How it works

Lecture 3: Pseudocode: Reverse String

Lecture 4: Pseudocode: Prime Number

Chapter 10: Programming Languages

Lecture 1: What is a Programming Language? What should I learn?

Lecture 2: Installing the workstation

Lecture 3: Hello, Programming Languages!

Lecture 4: Hello, Pocket Calculator!

Lecture 5: Hello, IF Structure

Lecture 6: Hello, LOOPS

Lecture 7: Greatest Common Divisor, Revisited

Lecture 8: Prime Number, Revisited

Lecture 9: Asterisk Square, Revisited

Lecture 10: Greedy, Revisited

Lecture 11: Recursion, Revisited

Chapter 11: Basic PHP

Lecture 1: Variables in PHP

Lecture 2: Falsy Values

Lecture 3: PHP Functions – Part 1

Lecture 4: PHP Functions – Part 2

Lecture 5: PHP Arrays – The Basics

Lecture 6: Two Fun Challenges

Lecture 7: Two Fun Challenges – Solution

Lecture 8: Associative and Multidimensional PHP Arrays

Lecture 9: Build a Library in PHP