Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Science (Professional Software Development) and Bachelor of Science (Games Development)

Aims & Objectives:

• Read, interpret, and describe the purpose of sample code, and locate within this code errors in syntax, logic, style and/or good practice
• Describe the syntactical elements of the programming language used, and how these relate to programs created with this language
• Write small programs using the language provided that include the use of pointers, records, functions and procedures, and parameter passing with call by reference and call by value
• Use functional decomposition to break a problem down functionally, represent the resulting structure diagrammatically, and implement the structure in code as functions and procedures
• Describe the principle of structured programming and how they relate to the structure and construction of programs

Teaching Methods:

Lectures (24 hrs), Tutorials (lab) (24 hrs), Practical Classes (Tests) (6 hrs)

Assessment:

Assignments, Tests (not graded), Portfolio

Generic Skills Outcomes:

Students will be provided with feedback on their progress in attaining the following generic skills:
· Communication skills
· Problem solving skills
· Ability to work independently

Content:

• Writing and compiling programms
• Programming language syntax
• Structured programming principles
• Functional decomposition

Reading Materials:

Sally Fincher, Studying Programming, Palgrave MacMillan, 2006