CS256 - Fundamentals of Structured Programming

Course Description

"An introduction to structured programming and top--down design;
applications to a wide variety of practical programming problems."

In terms of depth, the course is mostly C and Unix programming with some
Unix command line use and discussion of some Computer Science concepts.

Learning Outcomes

• Most important prerequisite skills/knowledge:
  • None
• Most important skills/knowledge gained:
  • Ability to use Unix at the command line.
  • Basic understanding of files and directories
  • Can take a specification and produce code implementing it.
  • C programming and debugging
  • Understanding of primitive data types and basic Boolean logic
  • Basic programming concepts such as scope, functions, conditionals and loops.
  • Simple algorithms for searching and sorting and simple mathematical concepts as they relate to programming such as numeric bases, summation and modulus arithmetic.

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