UNSW Handbook Course - Principles of Programming

Principles of Programming - COMP9021


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Course Outline: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This is a first programming course. It provides an introduction to programming in an procedural language (C in particular) and covers the following fundamentals.

Algorithmic constructs: selection, iteration and recursion, expression evaluation and assignment; library modules and I/O streams.

Data modelling: primitive types, arrays, strings, abstract data types. Sequential ADTs, trees, hashing.

Scripting languages: shell and awk.

Lab: programming exercises and assignments.

Further Information

CSE class page: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9021

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