Understand the key hardware components in a modern computer system and how software is mapped to the hardware.

Develop simple algorithms to solve computational problems.

Implement key algorithms within the field.

Understand and determine the computational complexity of simple algorithms.

Write computer programs using conditional and iterative structures, and functional decomposition.

Select an appropriate basic data structure (e.g. arrays) and access methods (e.g. pointers).

Understand functional decomposition and recursion.

Understand basic object-oriented principles.

Create programs that utilize input/output to perform data analysis.

Utilize Linux development tools needed to write, compile, and debug basic C++ programs.

Writing programs

Designing Algorithms

How Computers & computational systems work & history of computing

Basic OOP

Control Structures & logic (if/else etc)

Repitition & loops (for/while etc)

Arrays, Lists, dictionaries, vectors, sets

Pointers

File handling & I/O

Evaluating Time/Space Complexity

Recursion