understand the difference between a variable, value and object;

understand procedural abstraction and the passing of arguments and results;

understand how to structure basic Java programs to solve simple problems;

understand how to design an encapsulated data type with private and public aspects;

understand what is meant by object-oriented and component-based programming;

understand the time and space trade-offs between different implementations of collections;

understand the basics of visual application programming using Swing;

demonstrate the ability to work as part of a small group in order to solve a programming problem;

demonstrate an understanding of how to produce unit tests for checking that written code is working as expected.

Writing programs

Problem Solving (also things like computational thinking)

Teamwork skills & Communication

Basic OOP

Abstraction

Encapsulation

Variables, assignment, arithmetic expressions, declarations, data types

Testing & Debugging code

Evaluating Time/Space Complexity