Course co-ordinator(s): Dr Rob Stewart (Edinburgh), Smitha Kumar (Dubai), Dr Ali Muzaffar (Dubai).
Aims:
To develop further skills and techniques in programming in a high-level language. The ability to construct data structures in a high level language, and implementation algorithms over these data structures.
Detailed Information
Course Description: Link to Official Course Descriptor.
Pre-requisites: none.
Location: ALP, Dubai, Edinburgh.
Semester: 1.
Syllabus:
- static structures – arrays
- linear techniques e.g. search, delete, update
- dynamic structures - stacks & queues
- recursive techniques – linear recursion, accumulation recursion
- sorting & searching e.g. binary search, linear sorting, divide and conquer sorting
- linked structures – lists and trees: construction, traversal, delete, update
- introductory complexity & “big O” notation
- introduction to parallelism and concurrency
SCQF Level: 8.
Credits: 15.