Learn a form of reasoning, or problem solving, called Computational Thinking.

Learn what a computer can do and the primitive operations it can perform.

Learn what an algorithm is and learn to design, develop and test some algorithms.

Learn a subset of a certain programming language called C++ This subset includes (a) loops (b) if then-else and branching (c) looping (d) functions, procedures and their use for program design. (e) call by value vs. call by reference (f) arrays (g) file I/O (h) strings (i) structures (j) classes (k) pointers and dynamic memory allocation (l) objects with dynamic members (lists, vectors, exceptions, templates) (m) multidimensional arrays and vectors of vectors

Designing Algorithms

How Computers & computational systems work & history of computing

Problem Solving (also things like computational thinking)

Classes & objects

Control Structures & logic (if/else etc)

Repitition & loops (for/while etc)

Functions, methods and procedures

Arrays, Lists, dictionaries, vectors, sets

Strings

Pointers

File handling & I/O

memory allocation