The student will identify the hardware components of a computer and will describe how they act together to form a complete system including the scientific principles on which they are based.

The student will edit, compile, execute and get hard copy of a simple program.

The student will use good documentation, formatting and naming conventions to insure program readability

The student will write a program using the C++ arithmetic operators, input/output methods and appropriate manipulators for formatting

The student will write a program using appropriate selection statements such as if, if-else and switch

The student will write a program using appropriate looping statements such as while, for and do-while.

The student will write a program using functions with parameters passed by value and by reference

The student will create his own data type (enumeration data type)

The student will use both one dimensional and multi-dimensional arrays

The student will use character data and string processing

Writing programs

Developing good program Design methodology & styling

How Computers & computational systems work & history of computing

Generating clear documentation

Control Structures & logic (if/else etc)

Repitition & loops (for/while etc)

Functions, methods and procedures

Arrays, Lists, dictionaries, vectors, sets

Strings

Variables, assignment, arithmetic expressions, declarations, data types