Foundations of Programming: Fundamentals

Foundations of Programming: Fundamentals provides the core knowledge to begin programming in any language. Simon Allardice uses JavaScript to explore the core syntax of a programming language, and shows how to write and execute your first application and understand what’s going on under the hood. The course covers creating small programs to explore conditions, loops, variables, and expressions; working with different kinds of data and seeing how they affect memory; writing modular code; and how to debug, all using different approaches to constructing software applications. Finally, the course compares how code is written in several different languages, the libraries and frameworks that have grown around them, and the reasons to choose each one.

Topics include:
* Writing source code
* Understanding compiled and interpreted languages
* Requesting input
* Working with numbers, characters, strings, and operators
* Writing conditional code
* Making the code modular
* Writing loops
* Finding patterns in strings
* Working with arrays and collections
* Adopting a programming style
* Reading and writing to various locations
* Debugging
* Managing memory usage
* Learning about other languages

Introduction 04m 14s
Welcome 01m 16s
Making the most of this course 02m 08s
Using the exercise files 00m 50s

1. Programming Basics 22m 11s
What is programming? 05m 45s
What is a programming language? 04m 48s
Writing source code 05m 34s
Compiled and interpreted languages 06m 04s

2. Core Programming Syntax 16m 29s
Why JavaScript? 04m 45s
Creating your first program in JavaScript 06m 54s
Requesting input 04m 50s

3. Variables and Data Types 31m 38s
Introduction to variables and data types 05m 16s
Understanding strong, weak, and duck-typed languages 03m 51s
Working with numbers 05m 04s
Using characters and strings 04m 05s
Working with operators 04m 47s
Properly using white space 06m 46s
Adding comments to code for human understanding 01m 49s

4. Writing Conditional Code 24m 49s
Building with the if statement 07m 35s
Working with complex conditions 04m 10s
Setting comparison operators 06m 59s
Using the switch statement 06m 05s

5. Modular Code 17m 56s
Breaking your code apart 04m 01s
Creating and calling functions 02m 57s
Setting parameters and arguments 06m 07s
Understanding variable scope 02m 23s
Splitting code into different files 02m 28s

6. Iteration: Writing Loops 13m 32s
Introduction to iteration 04m 28s
Writing a while statement 05m 24s
Creating a for loop 03m 40s

7. More About Strings 19m 28s
Cleaning up with string concatenation 04m 30s
Finding patterns in strings 08m 03s
Introduction to regular expressions 06m 55s

8. Collections 19m 59s
Working with arrays 05m 47s
Array behavior 05m 29s
Iterating through collections 05m 18s
Collections in other languages 03m 25s

9. Programming Style 10m 50s
Programming style 05m 55s
Writing pseudocode 04m 55s

10. Input and Output 25m 55s
Input/output and persistence 03m 06s
Reading and writing from the DOM 08m 11s
Event driven programming 07m 47s
Introduction to file I/O 06m 51s

11. When Things Go Wrong 24m 26s
Introduction to debugging 05m 57s
Tracing through a section of code 07m 05s
Understanding error messages 03m 21s
Using debuggers 08m 03s

12. Introduction to Object Orientation 14m 17s
Introduction to object-oriented languages 05m 18s
Using classes and objects 06m 29s
Reviewing object-oriented languages 02m 30s

13. Advanced Topics 11m 14s
Memory management across languages 05m 11s
Introduction to algorithms 04m 02s
Introduction to multithreading 02m 01s

14. Exploring the Languages 29m 20s
Introduction to languages 01m 42s
C-based languages 04m 40s
The Java world 03m 13s
.NET languages: C# and Visual Basic .NET 06m 17s
Ruby 03m 04s
Python 02m 56s
Objective-C 04m 03s
Libraries and frameworks 03m 25s

Conclusion 01m 02s
Where to go from here 01m 02s