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Computer Programming

Instructors: Mela’eke Serawit & Kinde Mekuria

Course Summary
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.” Albert Einstein

The first course for software engineering majors and anyone seeking a rigorous introduction. Develops computational thinking
and problem-solving skills by programming, and exposes students to a variety of other topics from computer science and its
applications.

Prerequisites: High school mathematics and Excitement

Course Topics

Chapter 1: Introduction

● Introduction to computations

● Introduction to programs
Chapter 2: Variables, Expressions, and Statements

● Primitive data types and values

● Variables

● Data Types & Casting

● Booleans and Expressions

Chapter 3: Functions

● What are functions?

● Built-in Functions

● Function calls

● Parameters and Arguments

● Flow of execution

● Function composition

Chapter 4: Conditionals

● Boolean Expression and Logical Operators

● Conditional Execution

● Chained and Nested Conditions


● Keyboard Input and Defensive Programming
Chapter 5: Functions (Not a typo … functions again)

● User-Defined Functions
● Fruitful and void functions

● Return vs Print
● Function Scope

● Decomposition and Abstractions

Chapter 6: Iteration

● Looping Basics

● The while loop

● Break and Continue


● For Loops, Nested Loops
Chapter 7: Strings

● String as a sequence

● Indexing
● Mutability and Immutability

● Searching

● String Comparison

Chapter 8: Data Structures

● What are Data Structures

● Lists
● Numerical Indexing

● Dictionaries

● Tuples and Sets

Chapter 9: Persistence

● File

● Reading and Writing


● Common file formats

● Pickling

Chapter 10: Object-Oriented Programming


● Class and Object

● Object Modelling

Assessment

50% to be specified by the course instructor

Final Exam: 50%

Text Book:

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Useful links (Online books)

https://books.trinket.io/pfe/index.html

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