Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The module will introduce the basic concepts of programming needed to understand and to work with the most used applications in interaction design and with digital devices that can be used for service platforms.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

Students who complete the course module will obtain the following qualifications:

• Understand integrated development environments
• Understand recursive functions
• Understand types, declarations, expressions and statements
• Understand the complexity of a program
• Understand libraries and the concept of linking

Skills

Students who complete the course module will obtain the following qualifications:

• Design an event-driven interactive interface, e.g., a simple app or a touch-point of a service and integrate external libraries (application)
• Interpret and analyze a basic program
• Work out the complexity of a program (understanding)
• Explain how to use algorithms, functions and data for solving problems (understanding)

Competences

• Evaluate (analysis) existing code, judge its design and recommend changes
• Evaluate and select the right platform to be used for supporting a specific service applica-tion

Type of instruction

See general description of the types of instruction described in the introduction to Chapter 3

Exam

Exams