- Understand how to code in an imperative way using assignment, conditional, and repetition statements, being able to follow mentally the state transformations coded - Understand functional abstraction of code snippets into methods, including recursive methods and their termination - Understand the concepts in Java for modelling systems in an object-oriented way - Know how to design a simple algorithm given a specification - Have limited ability to correct buggy programs - Have some intuition about the efficiency of programs - Know how to use a development environment - Know how to look for additional information needed to code

Block 1: From the calculator to the computer (JavaMOOC1, Week 1): Expressions, statements, programs, data types, identifiers, decisions. Block 2: State transformation (JavaMOOC1, Week 2): Repetition, arrays, data representation and programs. Block 3: Functional abstraction (JavaMOOC1, Week 3): Methods, scopes, recursive methods. Block 4: Sorting (JavaMOOC3, Week 5): Simple algorithms, efficient algorithms, intuition about algorithm efficiency. Block 5: Errors (JavaMOOC2, Week 1): Error correction, testing, reasoning. Block 6: Object encapsulation (JavaMOOC1, Week 4): Objects and classes, information hiding,

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