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13 concepts tagged.

Logical operators, if / if-else / if-else-if statements, and the ternary operator.

Open CS1 textbook teaching concepts before syntax, recapitulated across C, Java, and PHP.

Arrays, static vs dynamic memory, shallow/deep copies, multidimensional arrays, collections.

Control flow, variables, types, operators, basic I/O, and debugging fundamentals.

Defensive programming versus exception-based error handling strategies.

Processing files — paths, error handling, buffering, and binary vs text files.

Defining and using functions; call by value/reference, overloading, variable args, defaults.

Objects, data visibility, accessors/mutators, constructors, composition, design principles.

Problem solving, computing basics, program structure, and pseudocode conventions.

While, for, do-while, and foreach loops; nesting, infinite loops, and loop equivalency.

Writing recursive functions, tail recursion, avoiding recursion, and memoization.

String basic operations, comparisons, and tokenizing.

Linear/binary search, selection/insertion/quick/merge sort, comparators, and stability.