Objectives
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Undertake
real-world design task
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Work as
a member of a team
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Practice
communication in written & oral form
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Learn
more programming techniques
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Practice
independent learning!
General
CS102 gives you an
opportunity to put the basic computer literacy, design and programming skills
you learnt in CS101 into practice. The course has two components. The first is
simply a continuation of CS101 aimed at expanding the range of techniques you
have available to solve problems. These new techniques will be presented in
formal lectures and, as in CS101, you will be given lab. assignments designed
to let you practice them. Material in this section includes recursion, files
and some basic data structures, plus a little about object-oriented
programming, event-driven architectures, searching and sorting. There will be
written exams on these topics. The second component of the course is a
semester-long design project. The ultimate goal is to produce a
commercial-quality program which is fully documented, bug-free and easy to use.
You will work in groups, each group selecting a different project. You will be
expected to prepare a number of written reports and to present these in class.
These documents will include basic requirements, specifications, detailed
design and user manuals. Groups will discuss each other's work and offer
suggestions and criticisms on it so as to help improve the final product.
Projects will be undertaken using Java. Students will be expected to display
creativity and an ability to learn independently.
Classroom Materials
for Section 2