COMP7710 Programming Fundamentals

About the course

This course provides Students with the opportunity to develop a solid understanding of programming that is essential before progressing to more advanced concepts. It is structured to demonstrate and provide the students with practice in the fundamentals of structured programming. It is designed for Postgraduate students who do not have a programming background.

Students will learn to use an industrial-strength object-oriented programming language and form basic mental models of how computer programs execute and interact with their environment. The course focuses on key aspects of solving programming problems: reasoning about a problem description to design appropriate data representations and function/method descriptions, to find examples, to write, test, debug, and otherwise evaluate the relevant code, and to present and defend their approach.

Students will learn to effectively use a large standard library and key standard data structures, including lists, trees, hash tables, and graphs. The course also introduces the basics of reasoning about the time and space complexity of algorithms, in particular as related to the above data structures.

When it meets

Every week

• Mon 17:00–19:00 lecture
• Thu 09:00–11:00 lecture

Choose one lab (10 options)

• Tue 08:00–10:00
• Tue 10:00–12:00
• Tue 12:00–14:00
• Tue 14:00–16:00
• Wed 08:00–10:00
• Wed 10:00–12:00
• Wed 12:00–14:00
• Wed 14:00–16:00
• Thu 11:00–13:00
• Fri 08:00–10:00

2027 times aren't published yet, so these are last year's.

Requirements

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed or are currently enrolled in COMP1110 OR COMP1140 OR COMP6710

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