What Do CS1 Syllabi Reveal About Our Expectations of Introductory Programming Students?

Mc Master University - Introduction to Programming

Country: Canada
University: Mc Master University
Course code: COMP SCI 1MD3
Course title: Introduction to Programming
Date of Syllabus:
Source: Manual search
Associated Degrees: Computer Science
Prerequisits: no
Course for Majors: yes
Course stage: 1
Semester:
Programming language: Python
Language of Instruction: English
URL: http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~cs1md3/outline.html
Explicit or !Explicit LOs: Explicit
Learning Outcomes:

learned the essential parts of the Python programming language (sufficiently to learn more on Python on one's own)

learned how to organize, write, document, test medium-sized programs, be aware of limits of computation,

be able to bring an informal problem statement into a computational formulation,

learned a number of algorithmic techniques for solving complex problems.

Values and types (innate data types, data encoding, expressions, variables, assignment, strings, lists, object & classes)

Imperative programming (modules, flow of control, control structures -- loops, exceptions and exception processing, procedures and parameter passing

Input and Output, files and operations with files

LO categories:

Writing programs

Problem Solving (also things like computational thinking)

Classes & objects

Control Structures & logic (if/else etc)

Repitition & loops (for/while etc)

Arrays, Lists, dictionaries, vectors, sets

Strings

Variables, assignment, arithmetic expressions, declarations, data types

File handling & I/O

Testing & Debugging code

Exception Handling