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EE20084: Structured programming

[Page last updated: 02 August 2022]

Academic Year: 2022/23
Owning Department/School: Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 50%, EX 50%
Assessment Detail:
  • Programming Assignment (CW 50%)
  • Examination (EX 50%)
Supplementary Assessment:
EE20084G - Reassessment Coursework (where allowed by programme regulations)
EE20084G - Reassessment Examination (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take EE10134 or equivalent.
Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing the unit, students will be able to:
(i) design, implement, test and debug functions and programs according to a given specification,
(ii) to locate and correct semantic and syntactic errors in a given program,
(iii) to explain various aspects of the languages such as scope or type conversion rules and so on,
(iv) to write well-structured software documented with appropriate comments,
(v) to understand the basic concepts of the interaction of a program with the operating system.

Aims: To introduce students to structured programming using a structured programming language such as Python, C, C++, Java. To develop their skills in writing good quality software using the structured programming language. To provide an appreciation of the importance of good software structure and documentation. To enable students to gain practical experience with programming and its interaction with the operating system environment.

Skills: Writing and documentation of structured computer programs. Problem Solving. Taught, facilitated and assessed.

Content: Fundamentals: identifiers, keywords, fundamental data types, constants, variables, arrays, declarations, operators, expressions and statements. Conditional and looping controls. Functions: defining, accessing and passing arguments to functions, recursive funcions. Prototypes. Modular programming. Use of standard library functions for data input/output. Arrays: defining, processing and passing arrays to functions. Multidimensional arrays. Strings and string processing. Allocation of variables in memory and dynamic memory allocation. Structures: defining and accessing structures. Self-referential structures. User defined data types. Bit fields. Data structures: stacks, queues. Linked lists and trees. Code execution timing. Parallel and thread programming. Operating Systems: event driven programming. Comparisons between structured programming languages - low level and high level operations.

Programme availability:

EE20084 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
  • UEEE-AFB13 : BEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB13 : BEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB01 : BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB01 : BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB12 : BEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB12 : BEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB14 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB14 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB15 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB15 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM13 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM13 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM12 : MEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM12 : MEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM14 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM14 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM15 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM15 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM16 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM16 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB16 : BEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB16 : BEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2022/23 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2023/24 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2022/23.
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