Introduction to Programming (MAY343)

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	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.

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.

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

Student Performance Evaluation

Final written examination (80%)

Laboratory exercises (20%)