What If It's Too Easy

What if This All Ends Up Being Too Easy?

• Assembly Language - Most students that already have coding experience will likely have seen only Basic or Pascal derived languages. Seeing assembly for the first time will certainly be a paradigm shift for them.
• Templates Techniques - General forms of algorithms for typical tasks such as iteration and conditional branching that will need to be adapted to fit a particular situation, teaching how to use new tools according to requirements.
• Binary Arithmetic - While slightly math-intensive, this important area will teach lessons concerning the natural limits of naive coding, while also touching upon the implications for error-free code, data validation, and security.
• Lambda Theory - Seeing that code is data will facilitate students' understanding of higher level concepts such as functional programming and object-orientation.
• Regular Expressions - Input processing is always a difficult subject for beginning coders, more so since it is needed regularly. Introducing them to Regular Expressions and formal parsing should greatly improve their capability for performing this common task.