Prerequisites of Computer Programming

updated 21 April 2022

• History of Computer Programming Languages

  https://cs.brown.edu/~adf/programming_languages.html

• Hardware & Software

  https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000039.htm

• Low-Level Languages

  https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/lowlangu.htm

• High-Level Languages

  • Compiled & Interpreted Languages (or both)

    https://guide.freecodecamp.org/computer-science/compiled-versus-interpreted-languages/

• Assembler and Compiler

  https://techdifferences.com/difference-between-compiler-and-assembler.html

• Programming Paradigms

  https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/paradigms/

  • Structured Programming vs. Object-Oriented Programming

    https://freefeast.info/difference-between/difference-between-structured-programming-and-object-oriented-programming-structured-programming-vs-object-oriented-programming/

• System Software and Application Software

  https://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/2016/04/difference-system-software-application-software.html

• Operating Systems

  https://www.techopedia.com/definition/3515/operating-system-os

• Data Types

  https://searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com/definition/data-type

• Data Structures

  https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-top-data-structures-you-should-know-for-your-next-coding-interview-36af0831f5e3/

• Syntax in Programming

  https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/syntax.html

• Program Flow
  • Processing

    • Algorithm

      https://www.techopedia.com/definition/3739/algorithm

    • Pseudocode

      https://computersciencewiki.org/index.php/Pseudocode

    • Flowchart

      https://www.visual-paradigm.com/tutorials/flowchart-tutorial/

  • Conditionals

    https://computersciencewiki.org/index.php/Conditionals

  • Loops

    https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~downeyt/cop2210/loops.html

• Memory & Storage

  https://www.kingston.com/en/community/articledetail/articleid/29685