Specific Concepts in Programming

• Variables:
  • Why they're important
  • How to make them
  • How they evaluate something and then don't re-evaluate it.(x = 1, y = x, x = 5, print y)
  • The details of how they're just referring to an address
  • Scope
  • How to change values
  • Mutable and immutable
• Names that have predefined values vs. your own custom variables
• Commenting! (not sure of implementation. function descriptions will be easier than other types of commenting as there are some pretty strict guidelines for those.)
• Making Tests! (not sure of implementation.)
• Understanding documentation!!
• Loops:
  • Counting through a loop
  • Looping through an Array and how us doesn't do lists
  • While
  • For
• If statements:
• Getting random numbers:
• Custom functions:
• Passing values to functions (I’ve seen people confused about this):
• Class/Objects/Dicts:
  • How js basically just has objects
  • How to declare those values
  • How to retrieve those values
• Importing modules
• Picking good modules!!!
• Debugging:
  • Syntax errors
  • Conceptual errors (getting a handle on indexes, etc.)
  • Error messages
• Do small parts at a time and test often