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 |