F27SA - Software Development 1

Course leader(s):

• Thomas Methven (Edinburgh, September)
• Mehran Sharghi (Edinburgh, September)
• Kayvan Alireza Karim (Dubai, September)
• Cristina Turcanu (Dubai, September)
• To be announced (Dubai, January)

Syllabus

1. Introduction and Familiarisation (1.1 1. Introduction to the Programming Language, 1.2 2. Introduction to IDEs, 1.3 3. Introduction to version control)

2. Fundamental Elements of Programming (2.1 1. Values, 2.2 2. Data Types, 2.3 3. Variables, 2.4 4. User Input)

3. Control Flow Statements (3.1 1. Conditional Execution, 3.2 2. Switch-case Statements, 3.3 3. Iteration)

4. More Complex Control Flow (4.1 1. Iteration and conditional execution, 4.2 2. Continue/Break, 4.3 3. Nested Loops)

5.1 1. Introduction to Arrays, 5.2 2. Multi-Dimensional Arrays

6. Methods (6.1 1. What is a Method?, 6.2 2. Passing Values to Methods, 6.3 3. Returning Values, 6.4 4. Variable Scope)

7. Objects and Classes (7.1 1. What is an Object?, 7.2 2. Objects vs Classes, 7.3 3. Making Objects, 7.4 4. Using Objects)

8. Inheritance (8.1 1. Super and Subclasses, 8.2 2. How to Inherit, 8.3 3. Polymorphism, 8.4 4. Method Overriding)

9. Using Objects (9.1 1. Encapsulation, 9.2 2. Abstraction, 9.3 3. Collections and Wrapper Classes)

10. Exceptions and Strings (10.1 1. Exceptions vs Errors, 10.2 2. Handling Exceptions, 10.3 3. Try-Catch, 10.4 4. Using Strings)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• by the end of this course, students will be able to create simple imperative programmes that accept input from a user
• by the end of this course, students will be able to use primitive data types, such as integers, floats, booleans, and Strings, to perform simple calculations, process data, and respond to user input
• by the end of this course, students will be able to apply classic programming control flow operations, including branching and looping based on current data state
• by the end of this course students will be able to employ the four core principles of the Object-Oriented Programming paradigm in simple programmes
• by the end of this course students will be able to utilise methods and reference data types to design and implement reusable and functional code
• by the end of this course students will be able to use classes, objects, and inheritance to formulate solutions to simple coding problems
• by the end of this course students will be able to use arrays, lists, maps, and sets to manipulate collections of data
• by the end of this course students will be able to use simple industry standard programming techniques, such as IDEs, Debugging, and Version Control software

Further details

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SCQF Level: 7

Credits: 15