Prerequisite/Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Students who complete the module enrich their background in working with computers and other digital devices in procedural ways to enable programming for different media platforms and working with analog and digital sensors.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

Students who complete the module will obtain the following qualifications:

• Understand integrated development environments
• Understand differences between run-time and compile-time computer programming languages
• Understand recursive functions
• Understand instances of inheritance, composition and encapsulation, and explain their utility
• Understand pointers and references
• Understand types, declarations, expressions and statements
• Understand libraries and the concept of linking
• Understand the complexity of a program
• Understand different methods for debugging code

Skills

Students who complete the module will obtain the following qualifications:

• Design an event-driven interactive interface, e.g., a simple game and integrate external libraries (application)
• Interpret and analyze a basic object oriented program and elaborate its functionality
• Interpret compiling error messages (understanding)
• Design and implement algorithms for data structure manipulation using references and addresses where necessary (application)
• Work out the complexity of a program  (understanding)
• Explain how to use algorithms, functions and data for solving problems (understanding)

Competences

Students who complete the module will obtain the following qualifications:

• Evaluate (analysis) existing code, judge its design and recommend changes

Type of instruction

Refer to the overview of instruction types listed in the start of chapter 3. The types of instruction for this course are decided in accordance with the current Framework Provisions and directions are decided and given by the Study Board for Media Technology.

Exam

Exams