3 Readings
Most of the reading is from How to Design Programs, second edition.
We want you to read
the Prologue
Part I, Ch. 5 through 5.6
Part II, Ch. 8, 9 through 9.1
Part II, Ch. 10 through 10.1
Part III
These roughly correspond to the first four parts of placement, so you can read each part over a different week.
You will also have to read from
A Data-Centric Introduction to Programming:
Section 3, Basic Data
Section 5, Lists
This corresponds to the fifth part of placement.