Understanding of the theory and practice of programming

Understand and logically evaluate program requirements and specifications.

Understand the complex ideas of programming solutions and relate them to particular problems.

The ability to design and analyse simple algorithms and data structures.

The ability to read and write programs

The ability to apply appropriate software development methods and tools.

The ability to solve problems using programming; to schedule and present work, and to retrieve additional learning material.

It covers fundamental programming constructs, such as types and variables, expressions, control structures and functions

The module also teaches how to design and analyse simple algorithms and data structures that allow efficient storage and manipulation of data

Finally, it familiarises students with software development methodology, including documentation, testing, debugging, and the use of software development tools, such as integrated development environments (IDEs) and version control systems.

Writing programs

Designing Algorithms

Problem Solving (also things like computational thinking)

Generating clear documentation

Data Structures (general or implied complex like stacks, queues etc)

Control Structures & logic (if/else etc)

Functions, methods and procedures

Variables, assignment, arithmetic expressions, declarations, data types

Testing & Debugging code

IDE use

Evaluating Time/Space Complexity

Version Control