CP101A: USACO Bronze (Live)

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Course Overview

USACO Bronze course is for students with minimum programming background. The language used for instruction is C++. The goal is when the student finishes the course, the student will be comfortable in solving USACO Bronze division contest problems and be promoted to the Silver division. Programming background is not necessary, however, strong Math skill is required. The student should have at least finished Algebra I in school or have qualified for MathCounts State Competition.

Since we are going to use C++ as the programming language, it is better for the students to learn some C++ basics before starting USACO Bronze lessons. I recommend students to take our pre-recorded C++ course: Basic C++ for USACO (Pre-recorded)

There are also some free resources on internet for learning c++ as well. For example, https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-c-plus-plus . To find out the reason why c++ is the best language in programming competition, you can read this article.

This class has 7 lessons. Each lesson lasts 2 hours. After each lesson, there is going to homework. The students will work on their homework questions via an online judging platform and get real time feedbacks.

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Lesson 1	Basics of programming in C++ Create a C/C++ project in Visual Studio Basic input and output Variable declarations, assignments Basic mathematical operations
Lesson 2	Learn to program in C++ Control Statements (if, else if, else)
Lesson 3	Looping statements part 1 For, while, do while, break, continue Price of a loop
Lesson 4	Looping statements part 2 For, while, do while, break, continue Price of a loop Input and output framework in a code contest
Lesson 5	Array and string part 1 Array String as an array of characters Try to solve real contest problems: UVa272, 10082, etc.
Lesson 6	Array and string part 2 2-Dimensional array Advanced string manipulation Try to solve real contest problems: UVa401, 340, etc.
Lesson 7	Functions and recursion Declare function and struct Call function and pass parameters Recursion Try to solve real contest problems: UVa489, 133, etc.