High-Level Programming

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Create and deliver functionally correct programs that meet a specification
• Implement and run interpreted programs that read and write files
• Install, manage, and use a command-line environment
• Use libraries and classes to access application-specific functionality

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Plan and record self-learning while performing practical work.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Describe simple data structures including vectors, maps, and dictionaries
• Explain the behaviour of recursive functions
• Explain basic imperative programming constructs, including variables, statements, expressions, and functions
• Describe the use of encapsulation to hide implementation details

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Model real-world entities using objects and data structures
• Convert a simple problem into a program specification

• Environment
• Command-line and REPL
• Version control
• Imperative programming
• Variables
• Branches
• Loops
• File-based IO
• Procedural programming
• Functions and arguments
• Scopes
• Recursion
• Lists, Tuples, Sets, and Maps
• Building Better Programs
• Testing and Error Handling
• Computational Thinking
• Software Design Principles
• Application Design
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Classes and objects
• Methods
• Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymorphism
• Maintenance
• Libraries
• Programming Style

The module consists of:

• Lectures
• Guided self-study
• Labs as part of the AICE Lab Programme which will cover practical aspects

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.