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1. (0) Introduction
   1. Welcome
   2. Making the most of this course
   3. Using the exercise files

1. Programming Basics
   1. What is programming
   2. What is a programming language
   3. Writing source code
   4. Compiled and interpreted languages
2. Core Programming Syntax
   1. Why JavaScript
   2. Creating your first program in JavaScript
   3. Requesting input
3. Variables and Data Types
   1. Introduction to variables and data types
   2. Understanding strong, weak, and duck-typed languages
   3. Working with numbers
   4. Using characters and strings
   5. Working with operators
   6. Properly using white space
   7. Adding comments to code for human understanding
4. Writing Conditional Code
   1. Building with the if statement
   2. Working with complex conditions
   3. Setting comparison operators
   4. Using the switch statement
5. Modular Code
   1. Breaking your code apart
   2. Creating and calling functions
   3. Setting parameters and arguments
   4. Understanding variable scope
   5. Splitting code into different files
6. Iteration: Writing Loops
   1. Introduction to iteration
   2. Writing a while statement
   3. Creating a for loop
7. More About Strings
   1. Cleaning up with string concatenation
   2. Finding patterns in strings
   3. Introduction to regular expressions
8. Collections
   1. Working with arrays
   2. Array behavior
   3. Iterating through collections
   4. Collections in other languages
9. Programming Style
   1. Programming style
   2. Writing pseudocode
   3. Input and Output
   4. Input/output and persistence
   5. Reading and writing from the DOM
   6. Event driven programming
   7. Introduction to file I/O
10. When Things Go Wrong
    1. Introduction to debugging
    2. Tracing through a section of code
    3. Understanding error messages
    4. Using debuggers
11. Introduction to Object Orientation
    1. Introduction to object-oriented languages
    2. Using classes and objects
    3. Reviewing object-oriented languages
12. Advanced Topics
    1. Memory management across languages
    2. Introduction to algorithms
    3. Introduction to multithreading
13. Exploring the Languages
    1. Introduction to languages
    2. C-based languages
    3. The Java world
    4. and Visual Basic .NET
    5. Ruby
    6. Python
    7. Objective-C
    8. Libraries and frameworks
14. Conclusion
    1. Where to go from here