Overview

This unit of study aims to introduce students to structured procedural programming and design.

Requisites

Equivalent units
COS10009 Introduction to Programming
Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Apply code reading and debugging techniques to analyse, interpret, and describe the purpose of program code and locate within this code errors in syntax, logic, style and/or good practice (K6, S1)
  • Describe the principles of structured programming, and relate these to the syntactical elements of the programming language used and the way programs are developed (A2, S1)
  • Construct small programs, using the programming languages covered that include the use of arrays, functions and procedures, parameter passing with call by value and call by reference, custom data types, and pointers (K1, K2, K3, S2)
  • Use modular and functional decomposition to break problems down functionally, represent the resulting structures diagrammatically, and implement these structures in code as functions and procedures (S3, A2, A4)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class		3.00 12 weeks 36
On-campus
Class		2.00 12 weeks 24
Live Online
Lecture		2.00 12 weeks 24
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		5.50 12 weeks 66
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual 10 - 40% 1,2,3,4 
ProjectIndividual 40 - 50% 1,2,3,4 
TestIndividual 10 - 30% 1,2,3,4 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

(i) an aggregate mark of 50% or more, and (ii) Obtain at least 40% in the final exam or test, and students who do not achieve at least 40% for the final exam or test (if applicable) will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.

Content

  • Designing, writing, compiling, documenting, and testing programs 
  • Programming language syntax 
  • Structured programming principles 
  • Functional decomposition
     

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.