Programming 1

Lecture 1
Introduction to Programming

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 Housekeeping Activities

• Module Overview
• Organization of Classes
• Schedule of learning activities and
assessments
• Assessment Breakdown

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 Module Overview

• This is a beginners class. We will be

using the structured approach. We will
cover the three control structures:
sequence, selection and repetition and
will look at basic data types(one
dimensional arrays and lists).
• Our solutions will be implemented using
Python & C

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 Organization of Classes

• Classes are organized as follows:

• 1 hour lecture
• 2 hours of tutorial
• 3 hours lab. The lab is broken down into one
supervised hour and two unsupervised
hours. The tutor stays with your for the
one supervised hour. In the remaining two
hours you are expected to complete your
worksheet. The questions from the work
sheet are used to build your portfolio which
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contributes 30% of your final mark.
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Schedule of Learning
Activities & Assessments

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 Assessment Breakdown
• Coursework 60%
Tutorial Test 5%
Lab Test #1 5%
Lab Test #2 5%
Lecture Test 15%
• Continuous Assessment (Project)** 30%
• Final Exam 40%
(** Every topic has an associated worksheet. You are
expected to complete all questions from each worksheet and
compile the solutions in a portfolio. Details of portfolio will
be given later. This is not a trivial activity and should not be
taken lightly.
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 Lesson Objectives:

• By the end of this lecture you should be able to:

1. Differentiate between the concepts of program and
programming
2. Explain the term programming paradigm
3. Describe the different levels of programming
4. List examples of procedural/OO languages
5. Differentiate between the Software Development
Life Cycle (SDLC) and the Program Development
Cycle (PDC)
6. Compare PDC with SDLC
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 What is a program?

• A program is an organized list of

instructions that, when executed, causes
the computer to behave in a
predetermined manner. Without
programs, computers are useless.

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 What is Programming?
• Programming is the process of instructing the
computer to accomplish a particular task.
• It is done with the help of a programming language.
• When the program is executed, the instructions will
be converted into machine language (to be
discussed later), which is the only language that the
computer understands.
• There are different levels of programming
languages and there are also different
programming paradigms.

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Programming Paradigms

• Simply put a programming paradigm is a style

or way of programming.
• Two common examples are structured paradigm
and object oriented paradigm.
• We will be using the structured approach.
• For more information on programming
paradigms follow the link below:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/introduction-of-programming-p
aradigms
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 Tutorial Activity

• Describe the different levels of

programming languages.
• Please type your response and be
prepared to share it in the group chat.

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 Answer – Levels of
Programming Languages
• Low Level
• Machine language
• Assembly language
• High Level
• Third generation
• Fourth generation
• Fifth generation

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 Machine Language

• Machine Language – collection of

binary digits (zeroes and ones) that the
computer reads and interprets. It is the
only language the computer
understands and is machine dependent.
• Example:

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 Assembly Language
• Uses Mnemonics or
abbreviations that corresponds
with a machine code
instruction. It is machine
dependent.
• Examples of Mnemonic LDA-
Loads a value from a memory
address. STA- Stores a value in
a memory address. ADD- Adds
value held in a memory address
to the value held in the
accumulator, and you have SUB
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 Third Generation
• High-level computer Eg. Python code
programming language that
tends to be more machine-
independent and programmer-
friendly than the machine
code of the first-generation.

• It uses English-like Eg. C code

statements and mathematical
notations. Examples High-
Level Languages Consists of
C++, C Sharp, Python, JAVA,
Basic, etc
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 Fourth Generation

• High level Eg
language used for SELECT FROM
report generators Student, Lname,
and query Fname WHERE city
languages. It = “Spanish Town
reads and process
data and place ORDER BY LNAME
results in report
form. It is non-
procedural and it 17

is machine
 Fifth Generation

• Goes into the realm of Artificial

Intelligence – siri, Alexa, Cortana,
google (voice recognition systems).
Denotes developments in computer
design to produce machines with
artificial intelligence
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 Examples of
Programming Languages
• PASCAL
• BASIC4
• C
• PYTHON
• C# (C Sharp)
• Visual Basic

• In this module we will be using PYTHON and C

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 Tutorial Activity

• For each example on the previous slide

classify them according the different
paradigms. Note that one example may
fall into more than one category.

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Answer

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 Software Development Life Cycle
versus Program Development Cycle

• Each day most of us interact with a software

system to carry out some activity. For example
you applied online to UTech, you use your smart
phones to access your bank account, shop online
just to name a few.
• How do you think of this is possible?

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 Software Development Life Cycle
versus Program Development Cycle

• All of this is made possible through the

use software systems. These systems
must be conceptualized, developed and
then put into use (deployed).
• To do this a systematic approach is
used.
• The steps used in this systematic
approach are know as the Software
Development Life Cycle (SDLC). 23
 The software
Development Lifecycle
• More formally stated, the SDLC is a
series of well-defined steps that should
be followed when a system is created or
being changed. It represents the big
picture of what happens during system
creation or modification.

• The steps are as follows:

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 The SDLC Cont’d…

• The System Development Life Cycle is

comprised of 5 steps, namely:
• Analyze the current system
• Design the new system
• Develop the new system
• Implement the new system
• Maintain the system

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 Analyze the Current
System

• This phase involves end users and IT

specialists working together to gather,
understand, and document the business
requirements for the proposed system.

• Simply put, we want to identify all the

activities the software should be able to
perform.
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 Tutorial Activity

• List some of the activities you are able

to perform using the following:
• UTech’s Portal
• The ATM

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 Activities - UTech’s
Portal
Drop module
• Apply online for
Add module
Select modules
studentship
View time table • Generate time
Access online classes
table
View accounting transactions
Send email • View calendar of
Access online library
events
Enter grades
Edit grades
Print class list

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Activities – ATM Machine

• Withdraw funds
• Deposit funds
• Check balance
• Transfer funds
• Pay bills
• Buy credit

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 Analyze the Current
System
• The activities you listed were identified
in the Analysis phase of the software
development phase

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 Design the New System

• In this phase you build a blue print of how the

proposed system will work. If you were
building a house the first thing you would do is
to design on “paper” (hard or soft copy). The
same concept applies to software development.

• So what do you think are some of the elements

we would need to design?
• Write your answers on the next slide
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 Tutorial Activity –
Elements of Design
• High Level Design

• Low Level Design

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Develop the new System

• Take all of your detailed design

documents from the design phase and
transform them into an actual system

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 Implement the New
System
• Distribute the system to all of the
knowledge workers and they begin
using the system to perform their
everyday jobs. This is also referred to
as deployment

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 Maintain the New
System
• Monitor and support the new system to
ensure it continues to meet the business
goals

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 First, Do It By
Hand!
• Upon being handed a problem, you
may first want to start coding – don’t!
• First solve the problem by hand.
• If you can’t do that, then you can’t
code it.

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The PDC

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 The Program
Development Cycle (PDC)
• Among the third and fourth step in the SDLC is
the design (third step) and development (fourth
step) of computer programs (Application layer).
Programmers carry out these steps.
• Just like the SDLC, we follow a series of steps
or phases to develop a program. These steps
are called the program development life cycle.
The program development life cycle is a set of
steps or phases that are used to develop a
program in any programming language.
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 Steps of the PDC
• The steps are outlined as follows:
• Identify the input, processing, output and storage
requirements (IPOS)
• Develop the logic for the program - using an algorithm
• Test the logic for correctness – using a trace table
• Write the program using a programming language
• Test and debug the program
• Complete the program documentation
• Internal – comments inside the code
• External – outside the code for example a flowchart or
pseudo-code, IPO chart
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 Algorithms & Trace
Tables
• An algorithm is a finite sequence of instructions that
provides the solution to a problem. It is finite
because the solution must have an end point.
• A trace table is a technique used to test an
algorithm and predict step by step how the
computer will run the algorithm. It can be used to
understand or predict what an algorithm is doing
and to identify potential logic errors

• We will explore algorithms and trace tables in

future lessons
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 SDLC and PDC

• So what then is the difference between

the SDLC and the PDC?

• Please write your answer on the next

slide

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 Answer

<< Write your answer here and then

remove the angled braces>>

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 We will be using the steps in the PDC
to develop our programming solutions

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 What is PYTHON
• PYTHON is a general-purpose high level computer
programming language that allows programmers
to create applications, web pages and many other
type of software. It is used as a scripting
language and a programming language.
• Use the link below to broaden your knowledge
about Python

• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/history-of-python
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 C Language

• C is a general-purpose programming language

• It is machine-independent, structured programming
language which is used extensively in various
applications.
• was the basic language to write everything from
operating systems (Windows and many others) to
complex programs like the Oracle database, Git,
Python interpreter and more.
• If you know 'C,' you can easily grasp the knowledge
of the other programming languages that uses the
concept of 'C'
• Use the link below to broaden your knowledge about
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C
 In the Tutorial

• Review Lecture and answer tutorial

questions found on previous slides

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 In the “Lab”

• Install Python and C on your personal

computers. Identify online version of
both software that you might find
useful.

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 Next Class

• Data Manipulation in Memory

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