To get the most out of this book

As we have explained before, this book requires you to have a minimum level of knowledge and skill regarding computer programming. The minimum requirements are listed below:

• General knowledge of computer architecture: You should know about memory, CPU, peripheral devices and their characteristics, and how a program interacts with these elements in a computer system.
• General knowledge of programming: You should know what an algorithm is, how its execution can be traced, what source code is, what binary numbers are, and how their related arithmetic works.
• Familiarity with using the Terminal and the basic shell commands in a Unix-like operating system such as Linux or macOS.
• Intermediate knowledge about programming topics such as conditional statements, different kinds of loops, structures or classes in at least one programming language, pointers in C or C++, functions, and so on.
• Basic knowledge about OOP: This is not mandatory because we will explain OOP in detail, but it can help you to have a better understanding while reading the chapters in third part of the book, Object Orientation.