Coding For Robotics (Grd 8-12)

What Will You Learn?

• 1. Introduction to C++ and Programming Basics
• Objectives: Familiarise students with the basics of programming and C++ syntax.
• History of C++ and its applications
• Setting up the development environment (IDE options, compilers)
• Structure of a basic C++ program
• Writing, compiling, and running a simple C++ program
• 2. Variables, Data Types, and Operators
• Objectives: Introduce data types, variables, and operators.
• Primitive data types
• Declaring and initializing variables
• Arithmetic, logical, and comparison operators
• Introduction to the iostream library and basic input/output
• 3. Control Structures
• Objectives: Teach decision-making and looping.
• Conditional statements: if, else-if, else, and switch-case
• Looping structures: for, while, do-while
• Using break and continue statements
• 4. Functions and Modular Programming
• Objectives: Enable students to write reusable code using functions.
• Defining and calling functions
• Function parameters, arguments, and return types
• Scope and lifetime of variables
• Function overloading
• 5. Arrays and Strings Objectives: Work with collections of data.
• Declaring, initializing, and accessing arrays
• Multi-dimensional arrays
• String manipulation and the string library
• Common string functions: length, find, substr, etc
• 6.Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Concepts
• Objectives: Build a foundation in object-oriented programming.
• Introduction to classes and objects