Prerequisites
- General entry requirements
Summary in English
Overall, the student will have acquired basic knowledge and skills in computer programming.
On completion of the course, the student will be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
- explain the concept of object oriented programming
- explain basic terminology, concepts and key words related to programming
Competence and skills
- develop language independent algorithms to obtain a structured design in the development of programmes
- create applications for input and output using a standard class library
- use selective statements containing conditions to control a programme’s execution
- use iteration to repeatedly execute statements until certain conditions are fulfilled
- create user defined classes containing properties and methods that represent the behaviour of objects created by these classes
- be able to debug a programme
- use data structures during execution and be able to manipulate these data structures
- write data to files and read out data from files
- present, explain, summarise and discuss solution methods and results both in writing and orally.