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Congratulations on completing this enrichment! Here's a collection of resources and topics for you to look into if you are interested in programming.

In this lesson, we will explore how to use data access control in abstract data types to ensure that our custom data types can maintain valid state at all times.

Arguably, C++'s strongest feature is its facilities for object-oriented programming, or the ability to create abstract data types that can handle both data and functionality, and provide a convenient way conceptually break apart our programs and understand them. This lesson will introduce you to structs, which provide a simple mechanism to create abstract data types.

As we have seen with the algorithm demos, a number of programming problems deal with having lists of things (typically numbers, but not necessarily). This lesson will teach you how to create an array, or list, of variables.

Now that you have covered the basics of coding in C++, our first more "advanced" topic is functions. Functions help you to abstract parts of your code so that you can rely on the same piece of code in multiple places in your source.

Scoping and code style are two important topics to know about moving forward, but we will not be spending too much time on them in class due to time constraints. Please read this article if you finish early on a task or exercise.

This activity will walk you through an introductory C++11 program, introducing you to basic input/output, variables, and control structures.

Switch/case is another control structure that will not be taught as a part of this course, but you can (optionally) read about it and try an exercise with switch/case at the link below.

For this enrichment, you will be using the online service repl.it to do hands-on coding exercises. Please follow these instructions to set up your repl.it account and link it to the Algorithms Enrichment classroom.