Introduction to Programming (MAY343)

Undergraduate Courses Outlines - Department of Mathematics

General

School	School of Science
Academic Unit	Department of Mathematics
Level of Studies	Undergraduate
Course Code	MAY343
Semester	3
Course Title	Introduction to Programming
Independent Teaching Activities	Lectures, laboratory exercises, tutorials, quiz (Weekly Teaching Hours: 5, Credits: 7.5)
Course Type	General Background
Prerequisite Courses	-
Language of Instruction and Examinations	Greek
Is the Course Offered to Erasmus Students	Yes (in English)
Course Website (URL)	http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~charis/c343/

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes

This course aims at introducing to students the philosophy of programming and at giving them the ability to implement algorithms in C/C++. After successfully passing this course the students will be able to: Write simple or complex programs Verify the correctness and appropriateness of a given program Debug programs Understand basic programming concepts, structures and techniques Use arrays, strings, and functions Conduct simple and complex arithmetic computations via programming Use control flow constructs, conditions, decision structures and loops Structure their programs with the help of iterative and recursive functions Program basic operations on data, such as searching and sorting.

General Competences

Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology Working independently Team work Project planning and management.

Syllabus

• Introduction to programming and binary representation
• Input/Output, data structures and variables
• Preprocessing, numerical, boolean and logical operators
• Flow control: if/else, switch, for, while, do-while
• Structuring, locality of parameters, pass by value/reference, variable scope, recursive functions, program stack.
• Arrays
• Searching and sorting data
• String operations
• Type and data structures and file processing.

Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation

Delivery	Lectures, labs session
Use of Information and Communications Technology	Use of projector and interactive board during lectures. Use of computer for demonstation of programming. Use of computers in laboratories for development and testing of programs. Course website maintenance. Announcements and posting of teaching material (lecture slides and notes, programs). Announcement of assessment marks via the ecourse platform by UOI.
Teaching Methods	Activity Semester Workload Lectures (13X5) 65 Laboratory practice 100 Tutorials 22.5 Course total 187.5
Student Performance Evaluation	Final written examination (80%) Multiple choice questions Develop programs Laboratory exercises (20%) Multiple choice questions Develop programs

Attached Bibliography

See the official Eudoxus site or the local repository of Eudoxus lists per academic year, which is maintained by the Department of Mathematics.