CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Computer Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 18302
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 100
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Experience in the use of computers will be valuable
DESCRIPTION
1 Basic Concepts. 1.1 Structure of a computer system: hardware and software. Information encoding. 1.2 Bool algebra. 1.3 The notion of programming language. Programming paradigms: structured programming. 1.4 Basic definitions: algorithm, program, process, etc. 1.5 Compilation, debugging and execution processes. 1.6 Pseudocode.
2 Basic elements of programming. 2.1 Identifiers. 2.2 Variables and constants. 2.3 Simple datatypes. 2.4 Operators, expressions and statements.
3 Control flow. 3.1 Conditional statements. 3.2 Loop statements. 3.3 Other control flow statements.
4 Data structures and user-defined datatypes. 4.1 Definition and design principles. 4.2 Strings: concept, management and application. 4.3 Arrays, tuples and sets: concept, management and application. 4.4 Dictionaries: concept, management and application.
5 Subprograms: procedures and functions 5.1 Definition and design principles. 5.2 Function signature, parameters and invocation. 5.3 Introduction to recursive functions. 5.4 Other paradigms: Object-Oriented programming introduction.
6 Basic algorithms. 6.1 Searching and sorting.
7 Resource management. 7.1 Static vs dynamic memory 7.2 Memory basic operations: allocation and free.
8 Input/Output system. 8.1 File definition, use and types: text and binary. 8.2 File management: create, write, read and delete operations.