High-Level Programming

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Describe the use of encapsulation to hide implementation details
• Describe simple data structures including vectors, maps, and dictionaries
• Explain basic imperative programming constructs, including variables, statements, expressions, and functions
• Explain the behaviour of recursive functions

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Model real-world entities using objects and data structures
• Convert a simple problem into a program specification

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Plan and record self-learning while performing practical work.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Install, manage, and use a command-line environment
• Implement and run interpreted programs that read and write files
• Use libraries and classes to access application-specific functionality
• Create and deliver functionally correct programs that meet a specification

• Environment
• Command-line and REPL
• Version control
• Imperative programming
• Variables
• Branches
• Loops
• File-based IO
• Procedural programming
• Functions and arguments
• Scopes
• Recursion
• Lists, Tuples, Sets, and Maps
• Building Better Programs
• Testing and Error Handling
• Computational Thinking
• Software Design Principles
• Application Design
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Classes and objects
• Methods
• Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymorphism
• Maintenance
• Libraries
• Programming Style

Teaching and learning methods

The module consists of:

• Lectures
• Guided self-study
• Labs as part of the AICE Lab Programme which will cover practical aspects

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.