Master the basic techniques of programmatic problem solving.

Write programs and run them from the command line.

Recognise compiler and/or runtime errors and be able to resolve errors so discovered.

Distinguish correct program behaviour from incorrect behaviour.

Debug source code, locate errors and fix them.

Master the following programming concepts: variables, control flow (if statements, for and while loops), functions and/or methods.

Understand and be able to use arrays and strings.

Implement basic programming idioms, such as linear search of an array.

Writing programs

Problem Solving (also things like computational thinking)

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

Searching algorithms

Testing & Debugging code

Detecting syntax errors

Detecting logic errors