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CM10227: Principles of programming 1

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2013/4
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Department of Computer Science
Further information on credits Credits: 12
Further information on unit levels Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Further information on teaching periods Period: Semester 1
Further information on unit assessment Assessment: CW 50%, EX 50%
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Further information on requisites Requisites:
Further information on descriptions Description: Aims:
To introduce students to the development of computer software, including problem analysis, establishing requirements, designing, implementing and evaluating. To provide practical skills at reading and writing programs and producing programs to solve real world problems. To provide students with domain specific problem solving techniques. To make students feel confident about programming in the taught languages and about being able to learn different programming languages and programming paradigms. To develop within the students the ability to distinguish between the underlying principles of computer programming against those that are development-environment or language specific. To provide students with mechanisms to become independent learners who take control over their education rather passively taking in information.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Understand the basic procedural control statements and design, implement, test and evaluate programs using this paradigm.
2. Understand the basic concepts of object orientation and design, implement, test and evaluate programs in this paradigm.
3. Be able to design, construct and evaluate simple data structures and algorithms.
4. Understand and appreciate the limits of computation.

Skills:
Use of IT (T/F,A), Problem Solving (T/F,A), Communication (T/F,A).

Content:

* Procedural Control: Introduction to procedural system development. Discussion of control structures: sequence, selection, iteration and recursion. Introductions to scope and extent, abstract data types. Design methods for such systems. Unit testing.
* Objects: Introduction to object-oriented system development. Extending Abstract data types and scope and extent. Introduction of Objects and classes, inheritance and polymorphism. Comparison of programming languages.
* Data Organization: Basic data structures: lists, stacks and queues. Basic search and sorting algorithms for these data structures. Files and streams. Data handling.
* Limits of Computation: Introduction to complexity analysis and computability.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:

CM10227 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:

Department of Computer Science
  • USCM-AFB11 : BSc (hons) Computer Information Systems (Full-time) - Year 1
  • USCM-AKB12 : BSc (hons) Computer Information Systems (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 1
  • USCM-AAB12 : BSc (hons) Computer Information Systems with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 1
  • USCM-AFB06 : BSc (hons) Computer Science (Full-time) - Year 1
  • USCM-AKB07 : BSc (hons) Computer Science (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 1
  • USCM-AFB20 : BSc (hons) Computer Science and Mathematics (Full-time) - Year 1
  • USCM-AKB20 : BSc (hons) Computer Science and Mathematics (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 1
  • USCM-AAB20 : BSc (hons) Computer Science and Mathematics with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 1
  • USCM-AFB09 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Business (Full-time) - Year 1
  • USCM-AKB10 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Business (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 1
  • USCM-AAB10 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Business with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 1
  • USCM-AAB07 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 1
  • USCM-AFM01 : MComp (hons) Computer Science (Full-time) - Year 1
  • USCM-AKM02 : MComp (hons) Computer Science (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 1
  • USCM-AFM14 : MComp (hons) Computer Science and Mathematics (Full-time) - Year 1
  • USCM-AKM14 : MComp (hons) Computer Science and Mathematics with Industrial Placement (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 1
  • USCM-AAM14 : MComp (hons) Computer Science and Mathematics with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 1
  • USCM-AAM02 : MComp (hons) Computer Science with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 1

Notes:
* This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2013/4 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2014/15 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2013/14.
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.