SSE Topics: Hardware - Lazarus - Gamemaker

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• Orientation - RAD environment, forms and other objects, their properties, methods and events associated with them.
• Intro To the Pascal language - General program outline, convention and structure, the store, the body, comments
• Project Structure and Syntax.
• Console Applications - text-based applications in Lazarus v2-5
• Data and typecasting - declaration and assignment, simple types, operation on simple types, converting between types
• Pascal Statements - General programming language characteristics, and compound actions, use of the begin...end
• Output and Input - messages, dialogs, and display
• Adding To The Environment - Types and Constants, sub-ranges, user-enumerated types, type statements
• Algorithms, algorithmic elements and their description
  Includes Sequence, Selection and Iteration
• Sub-Programming and event-driven Modularity- General, simple procedures and functions, Scope rules, Procedures/Functions with parameters (pass by reference, pass by value), procedural problems, Simple Recursion
• User Interface Development
• Abstract Data Types
• Compound Data Structures - Overview of compound types and The SET
• Compound Data Structures - Arrays and Strings
• Compound Data Structures - Records and Tables
• Sorting - Bubble, Insertion, Selection, Quick sorting and Binay Searching (via a binary 'chop')
• External Storage Structures - Pascal Data Files and Text Files
• Visual Command Glossary

Visual Project Recipes (follow the bouncing mouse exercises)

• Hello World - Our First form-based project
• IFB's - Identified Flying Buttons, space ships and simple timer-based animation.
• Maths Tutor - A Button-based Mathematics tutor (simple Addition sums)
• Virtual Pet - A 'tamagotchi' style artificial lifeform that uses timers, gauges and graphics to thoroughly waste your time.
• Sprite-Based Animation - A 'wonky' walking robot.
• GO! Speed Racer. - A race between 3 riders in this simple timer-based game