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A Roadmap to Programming Concepts, using Python

Here are broken out the concepts of programming with Python; essentially a list of ideas, the order in which they might be learned and where the knowledge can be gained.

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“What mental model is necessary to understand programming?”

  • what is an algorithm?

  • that things happen in sequence

  • and can loop

  • but exceptions can be raised

  • names are bound to values

  • those values can be singles

  • or collections like lists, tuples

  • collections have subscripts, with ranges

  • strings are actually collections

  • mappings are interesting

  • programs have a start and a stop

  • they usually do some setup at the start

  • they may report some status at the stop

  • code can be carried around like a value

  • grouping code with functions reduces complexity

  • modules group code too

  • classes and objects

  • you have a choice of interpreters

    • cpython

    • ipython

    • vpython

    • ironpython

    • jython

    • stackless