Areas of Study Semester One: * Introduction to C++ * Flow control * Data control * Algorithms * Standard libraries * Binary arithmetic * Vectors * Trigonometry * Logical and bitwise operations * Structured programming techniques * Version Control Semester Two: * Class design * Memory management * OO design * Pointers, pointer arithmetic and array indexing * Managing the physical structure of C++ programs * Implementing linked lists * Preprocessor basics * Pass by value and pass by reference * Low level C: C-style strings, files I/O, “str” functions, “mem” functions * Using C++ safely * Pointers to functions