1. Understand what variables, operators and data types are in programming languages 2. Choose appropriate data types to store data 3. Understand the purpose of defining and calling functions 4. Implement a function based on its description 5. Understand how conditional statements work, identify scenarios when conditional statements are needed, and correctly express the conditions using Python language 6. Understand how loops work, identify scenarios when loops are needed, the stopping conditions of such loops and the actions to be repeated, and correctly express them using Python language 7. Understand the usage of lists and apply the appropriate syntax to manipulate a list 8. Identify scenarios when lists are needed to solve a problem and correctly construct lists to suit the needs 9. Understand the usage of dictionaries and apply the appropriate syntax to manipulate a dictionary 10. Identify scenarios when dictionaries are needed to solve a problem and correctly construct dictionaries to suit the needs 11. Apply the appropriate syntax to read and write text files in Python 12. Divide a complex problem into smaller sub-problems and conquer them one by one with the help of loops, conditions, functions, etc. 13. Understand the notion of computational complexity and how the number of operations is related to the size of the input 14. Understand the time complexity of simple and typical code snippets such as loops and dictionary lookups 15. Apply the notion of computational complexity to analyse simple programs