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Schedule and Course Materials
Objectives
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Undertake real-world design task
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Work as a member of a team
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Practice communication in written & oral form
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Learn more programming techniques
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Practice independent learning!
General
CS102 gives you an opportunity to put the basic computer literacy, design
and programming skills you learnt in CS101 into practice. The course has two
components. The first is simply a continuation of CS101 aimed at expanding the
range of techniques you have available to solve problems. These new techniques
will be presented in formal lectures and, as in CS101, you will be given lab. assignments designed to let you practice them. Material in
this section includes recursion, files and some basic data structures, plus a
little about object-oriented programming, event-driven architectures, searching
and sorting. There will be written exams on these topics. The second component
of the course is a semester-long design project. The ultimate goal is to
produce a commercial-quality program which is fully documented, bug-free and
easy to use. You will work in groups, each group selecting a different project.
You will be expected to prepare a number of written reports and to present
these in class. These documents will include basic requirements,
specifications, detailed design and user manuals. Groups will discuss each
other's work and offer suggestions and criticisms on it so as to help improve
the final product. Projects will be undertaken using Java. Students will be
expected to display creativity and an ability to learn independently.