Computer Programming I

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. identify different programming paradigms and their approach to programming; 2. write programmes using basic data types and strings; 3. design and implement programming problems using selection; 4. design and implement programming problems using loops; 5. use and implement classes as data abstractions in an object-oriented approach; 6. implement simple exception handling in programmes; 7. develop programmes with input/output from text files; and 8. design and implement programming problems involving arrays.

Introduction to computer programming. Functional programming. Declarative programming. Logic programming. Scripting languages. Introduction to object-orientation as a technique for modelling computation. structured and functional programming principles. Introduction of a typical object-oriented language such as Java. Basic data types, variables, expressions, assignment statements, and operators. Basic object-oriented concepts: abstraction, objects, classes, methods, parameter passing, and encapsulation. Class hierarchies and programme organisation using packages/namespaces. Use of API – use of iterators/enumerators. List, Stack, Queue from API. Searching. sorting. Recursive algorithms. Event-driven programming. event-handling methods. event propagation. exception handling. Introduction to Strings and string processing. Simple I/O. Control structures. Arrays. Simple recursive algorithms. inheritance. polymorphism. Lab work: Programming assignments. design and implementation of simple algorithms e.g. average, standard deviation, searching and sorting. Developing and tracing simple recursive algorithms. Inheritance and polymorphism.