Department of Chemical Engineering, Unit Catalogue 2006/07

CE10082 IT & computer programming

Credits: 3

Level: Certificate

Semester: 1

Assessment: CW 100%

Requisites:

Aims: To develop skills in the use of IT and to introduce computer programming.
Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this unit students should be able to:
* Use spreadsheet packages for the processing and analysis of data.
* Draw various different types of graphs and format the plots.
* Understand the need for computer programming in chemical engineering.
* Understand and draw flow diagrams.
* Break simple problems down into a series of defined steps and formulate them into an algorithm to solve a problem.
* Use a FORTRAN compiler to write and edit simple code.
* Be able to manage data files.
Skills:

* Data management (taught/facilitated and assessed).
* ICT (taught/facilitated and assessed).
* Analysis and synthesis (taught/facilitated and assessed).
Content:

* Use of a commercial spreadsheet package.
* Flow diagrams and algorithms.
* Introduction to computer languages.
* FORTRAN compilers.
* Computer programming in FORTRAN.

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