Programming IModule Details

Objectives of the Course:

•  Introduce students to structured programming by means of the syntax and semantics of a structured high-level programming language.
•  Provide students a good working knowledge of a programming language. This includes programming constructs such as expressions, selection statements, loops, functions and arrays.
•  Provide practical experience in problem solving, coding, debugging, and testing.
•  Guide the student in order to develop good programming practices.
•  Obtain a foundation that will allow the student to pursue more advanced programming topics.

Learning Outcomes:

• Deal with the practicalities of writing a computer program.
• Think and plan in a logical manner.
• Apply a structured approach to problem solving.
• Analyze and explain the behavior of simple programs involving the fundamental programming constructs.
• Modify and expand short programs that use standard conditional and iterative controls structures and functions.
• Design, implement, test and debug a program that uses each of the following fundamental programming constructs:

               Basic computation

               Simple I/O

               Standard conditional and iterative structures

               Functions

               Arrays

•  Choose appropriate conditional and iteration constructs for a given programmingtask.
•  Apply the techniques of structured (functional) decomposition to break a program into smaller pieces.
•  Describe the mechanics of parameter passing (value and reference) and write programs with actual and formal parameters.