Advanced Programming

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Describe the software lifecycle.
• Describe the principles of Object-Oriented programming, including the concepts of inheritance, abstraction and polymorphism.
• Describe the relationship between application, kernel and stand-alone code.
• Appreciate basic HCI and its relevance to UI design.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Implement effective application, kernel-level, and stand-alone C++.
• Make use of SystemC.
• Design, write and debug C++ using the Eclipse IDE.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Model software systems before implementation.
• Use appropriate techniques to work effectively within a team.
• Manage your time in a collaborative project.
• Keep an effective record of the development and testing of your work.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Effectively integrate reusable OO libraries
• Analyse, enhance and debug existing OO programs.
• Design new OO programs.

Relationship between C and C++; other OO languages

Introduction to the Raspberry Pi platform

Introduction to C++

• Encapsulation
• Classes
• Objects
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism

Programming in C++

• The software lifecycle
• Source code control
• Testing
• Object-oriented programming
• Use of OO modelling tools, including UML
• GUIs; UI design
• Exception Handling
• Storage (Files & Databases)
• Dynamic memory allocation

Introduction to data structures

• Trees and Graphs
• Stacks queues and linked lists
• Searching and sorting

Use of high-level program development tools

Approaches to collaborative programming

Databases and other persistent storage

Operating systems and device drivers

Introduction to System C

Multi-threaded programming in C++ 2011

Introduction to distributed computing

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.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.