High-Level Programming

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Explain the behaviour of recursive functions
• 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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

• 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

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.