CS2310Computer Programming

What you will study

Course overview

This course aims to equip students with essential programming skills for object-oriented (OO) programming, so as to lay a solid foundation for other computer science related courses. After finishing this course, students should be able to articulate and write an object-oriented program, and have adequately grasped the necessary fundamental computer programming knowledge on which other computer science courses are built.

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Course content

Programming language, program development, control structures, data types, arrays, files, recursion, pointers and dynamic variables. Object-oriented programming: class and object, inheritance, overloading, polymorphism. Scoping, programming style and tools. Syllabus: • Computers and programming Hardware/software hierarchy, the computer as a multi-level language machine. Program development process and environments. • Programming techniques and the development of algorithms Algorithms, programming language, modular decomposition and procedural abstraction, automatic and dynamic variables, parameter-passing by reference and by value for atomic data, objects, arrays, control structures, iteration, recursion. • Data types and manipulation Concept of data types. Simple data types. Arrays. Strings. Files. Encapsulation and information hiding. Defining and using classes. Class library. Pointers. Input/output, arithmetic, logical and string operations. • Program development practice Professional programming styles. Program testing. Program documentation.

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Intended learning outcomes

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CILOs                                              Weighting (if DEC-A1          DEC-A2          DEC-A3
                                                                  app.)
1              Describe and explain the fundamental concepts, 10                                x
               syntax, style and structure of object-oriented
               programs.
2              Create and develop solutions to simple             60
               problems / tasks and implement solutions
               with good programming practice in an object-
               oriented programming language.
3              Trace, analyse, validate and deduce the output  15                 x             x
               of given program code of different complexities.
4              Demonstrate working knowledge on advanced          15                            x
               programming features such as object
               initialization, inheritance, overloading and
               polymorphism.

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Before you take this course

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Prerequisites

Nil

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Precursors

CS1102 Introduction to Computer Studies or CS1302 Introduction to Computer Programming or CS1302A Introduction to Computer Programming or equivalent

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Corequisites

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Additional course requirements

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Equivalent courses and conditions

CS2311 Computer Programming CS2315 Computer Programming

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Exclusive courses and conditions

CS1315 Introduction to Computer Programming CS2313 Computer Programming CS2360 Java Programming

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Assessment and passing the course

Assessment

Continuous Assessment (%): 50; Examination (%): 50; Examination Duration (Hours): 2

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ATs              CILO No.            Weighting (%)       Remarks             Allow Use of
                                                                                                     GenAI?
1                       Assignments      1, 2, 3, 4          25                  Students are        No
                                                                                 required to work
                                                                                 on assignments at
                                                                                 least once every
                                                                                 four weeks
2                       Lab assessment   1, 2, 3, 4          10                  -                   Yes
3                       Quiz             1, 2, 3             15                  -                   No

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Passing requirements

Minimum Examination Passing Requirement (%): 30 Additional Information for ATs: For a student to pass the course, at least 40% of the maximum mark for the continuous assessment and 30% of the maximum mark for the examination must be obtained.

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