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Computer Programming Syllabus

This document outlines a Computer Programming course taught by Mr. Michael Sheleme, focusing on computational thinking and problem-solving skills through programming. It covers various topics including algorithms, functions, conditionals, data structures, and object-oriented programming, with assessments based on exams and assignments. Prerequisites include high school mathematics and a passion for the subject.

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Computer Programming Syllabus

This document outlines a Computer Programming course taught by Mr. Michael Sheleme, focusing on computational thinking and problem-solving skills through programming. It covers various topics including algorithms, functions, conditionals, data structures, and object-oriented programming, with assessments based on exams and assignments. Prerequisites include high school mathematics and a passion for the subject.

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Computer Programming

Instructors: Mr. Michael Sheleme


Contact: [email protected]
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 variety of other topics from computer science and its
applications.

Prerequisites: High school mathematics and Excitement

Course Topics
Chapter 1: Introduction

● What is computation?
● History of computing and programming
● Formal and Natural languages
● Introduction to Programming
Chapter 2: Flowchart and Algorithm Basics
• Problems Involving Selection
• Problems Involving Looping
• Problems Involving Arrays
Chapter 3: Variables, Expressions and Statements

● Primitive data types and values


● Variables
● Data Types & Casting
● Booleans and Expressions

Chapter 4: Functions

● What are functions?


● Built-in Functions
● Function calls
● Parameters and Arguments
● Flow of execution
● Function composition

Chapter 5: Conditionals

● Boolean Expression and Logical Operators


● Conditional Execution
● Chained and Nested Conditions
● Keyboard input and Defensive Programming
Chapter 6: Functions (Not a typo … functions again)

● User-Defined Functions
● Fruitful and void functions
● Return vs Print
● Function Scope
● Decomposition and Abstractions

Chapter 7: Iteration

● Looping Basics
● The while loop
● Break and Continue
● For Loops, Nested Loops
Chapter 8: Strings

● String as a sequence
● Indexing
● Mutability and Immutability
● Searching
● String Comparison

Chapter 9: Data Structures

● What are Data Structures


● Lists
● Numerical Indexing
● Dictionaries
● Tuples and Sets

Chapter 10: Persistence

● File
● Reading and Writing
● Common file formats
● Pickling

Chapter 11: Object Oriented Programming

● Class and Object


● Object Modelling

Assessment

Mid Exam: 25%

Quiz and assignment: 25%

Final Exam: 30%


Text Book:
Allen Downey. How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (2nd edition).

A. B. Chaudhuri. Flowchart and Algorithm Basics: The Art of Programming

Reference:

Liang. Introduction to Python Programming

Online Course

Python For Everybody Specialization (Course 1 and 2). URL


(https://www.coursera.org/specializations/python#courses)

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