48 hours

Hawthorn, Sarawak

HIT2037 Software Development in Java or HIT2080 Introduction to Programming or HES1300 Robotics and Mechatronics Project 1 (or completion of a second level programming subject). Students are expected to have a working knowledge of introductory-level C.

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Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Computing (Network Design and Security), Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunication and Network Engineering), Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunication and Network Engineering)/ Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Information Technology) and Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering).

Aims & Objectives:

• To consolidate C programming skills and to extend those skills to the development of larger, modular applications.
• To improve understanding of user-defined data types and to introduce the concept and implementation of dynamic data structures.
• To introduce C++ and object-orientation.

• decompose procedural programs into small functions that appropriately use function parameters passed by value or by reference,
• dynamically allocate memory at runtime, including for arrays, use to advantage the relationship between arrays and pointers, assign addresses to pointers and dereference pointers.
• declare and implement your own data types,
• write modular programs involving multiple C source files and function libraries,
• write and use dynamic data structures in C including linked-lists, stacks and queues,
• evaluate and compare the efficiency of different algorithms (big O),
• use features of C++ that improve on C for procedural programs,
• write simple C++ programs using classes and objects,
• test and validate software.

Teaching Methods:

Lecture (24 hrs), Tutorials (labs) (24 hrs)

Assessment:

Assignments, Tests, Examination

Generic Skills Outcomes:

Students will be provided with feedback on the attainment of the following generic skills:
· analytical skills
· problem solving skills
· tackle unfamiliar problems
· Work independently

Content:

• Software specification.
• Software modularisation.
• Random Access file systems
• Advanced data structures (linked lists, queues and stacks).
• Introduction to C++  and object-oriented programming

References:

Deitel, H.M., and Deitel, P.J., C:How to Program. 5th edition, Pearson Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 2007

Hanly, JR & Koffman, EB, Problem solving and Program design in C, 4th edn, Adison Wesley, 2003.

Etter, DM & Ingber, JA, Engineering Problem Solving with C++, Prentice Hall, 2003.