Prerequisites

Required

• Substantial Programming Experience
  • Know how to write, edit, and compile a program
  • Know how to design algorithms and data structures to solve a problem
  • Know how to write clean, legible, maintainable code
  • Know how to debug a program
• Reading knowledge of C
  • You should know what a for loop looks like.
  • You should know what ints, floats, and doubles are.
  • You should be able to recognize a function call and its arguments
  • You do not need to know pointer arithmetic.
  • You do not need to understand the preprocessor.
  • You do not need to understand arcana like enums, unions, structs, bitwise operators, or typedef.
• Some basic computer skills
  • Know how to use the Web, email, and ftp
  • Know how to take screenshots on your platform of choice
  • Know how to manipulate directories
  • Know how to add a program to your path
  • Know how to set environment variables

Helpful but not absolutely required

• Know how to write HTML and publish a web page.
• Object-oriented programming
• GUI programming, Windows, the Mac, Motif, or some such
• Object-oriented analysis and design
• C, C++, or Objective C