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Swansea - Programming 1

Country: Wales
University: Swansea
Course code: CS 110
Course title: Programming 1
Date of Syllabus:
Source: Manual search
Associated Degrees: Computer Science
Prerequisits: no
Course for Majors: yes
Course stage: 1
Semester:
Programming language: Java
Language of Instruction: English
URL: https://intranet.swan.ac.uk/catalogue/default.asp?type=moddetail&dept=any&mod=CS-110&ayr=17%2f18&psl=TB1&detailOnly=false
Explicit or !Explicit LOs: Explicit
Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to design programs to solve specific problems based on procedural programming concepts, and the object oriented programming concepts of classes, objects, methods and encapsulation.

Students will be able to write and debug programs to solve specific problems based on procedural programming concepts, and the object oriented programming concepts of classes, objects, methods and encapsulation.

Students will be able to write programs that meet professional standards in terms of readability and the programming conventions of Java.

Students will be able to read and describe the function of straightforward programs based on procedural programming concepts, and the object oriented programming concepts of classes, objects, methods and encapsulation written by others.

LO categories:

Writing programs

Problem Solving (also things like computational thinking)

Program Comprehension

Basic OOP

Classes & objects

Encapsulation

Functions, methods and procedures

Testing & Debugging code