From your very first variable to shipping and maintaining real systems: the craft of writing code, the discipline of structuring it with objects, and the engineering practices that turn a program into software a team can trust.

This subject course follows the topic vertically, across the years it spans. Some lessons are already written; the rest are shown as placeholders.

Year 1 — Programming I

1. Variables and Assignment
2. Data Types
3. Arithmetic Operators
4. Comparison and Logical Operators
5. Input and Output
6. Selection: If/Else
7. Nested Selection and Iteration
8. Count-Controlled Iteration
9. Condition-Controlled Iteration
10. Subroutines: Procedures and Functions
11. Parameters and Return Values
12. Local and Global Variables
13. Lists and Arrays
14. Two-Dimensional Arrays
15. String Handling
16. Records
17. Input Validation
18. Defensive Design
19. Errors: Syntax, Logic and Runtime
20. Reading and Tracing Code
21. Recursion
22. Reading and Writing Files

Year 1 — Object-Oriented Programming

1. Classes and Objects
2. Encapsulation
3. Inheritance
4. Polymorphism

Year 2 — Software Engineering

1. The Software Development Lifecycle
2. Requirements Engineering
3. UML and Modelling
4. Design Principles: SOLID
5. Design Patterns
6. Software Architecture
7. Testing and Defensive Design
8. Continuous Integration and Delivery
9. Version Control
10. Agile and Scrum
11. Refactoring and Technical Debt