Concepts of Programming — A 3 day course

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Synopsis

The Concepts of Programming course is designed to give delegates an understanding of the purpose, principals and techniques of programming.

As well as teaching the basics of programming, this hands-on course shows delegates how to create simple programs using the C programming language. Delegates will also discover when and how to use variables, conditional structures, loops, strings, arrays and functions.

This course will equip delegates with the skills required to learn further programming languages such as:-

• Java
• Perl
• Python
• Ruby
• JavaScript
• PHP

Objectives

To provide the skills necessary to write simple programs and allow access to more detailed programming languages.

By the end of this course the delegate should be able to:

• Understand the purpose of writing programs
• Write, compile and run simple programs using the C language
• Create programs which accept commands and generate output
• Declare, initialise and use variables appropriately
• Use the various loop structures available
• Control program flow with conditional expressions
• Handle text data using strings
• Perform arithmetical calculations
• Manipulate simple collections of data
• Write reusable functions

.Understand the usefulness of a variety of programming languages

Contents

Introduction to Programming

• What is a program?
• Computer Hardware
• Memory
• Binary and Hexadecimal Notation
• Operating Systems
• File Types

Program Design

• Defining the Problem
• Devising the Solution
• Writing Pseudocode
• Using Comments for Clarity
• Adhering to Standards

Program Implementation

• Compilation and Interpretation
• Editors, Compilers and Debuggers
• Integrated Development Environments

Development Choices

• Generations of Programming Languages
• Procedural Languages
• Object Oriented Languages
• Markup Languages

Beginning Programming

• An Overview of C
• Program Layout
• Generating a Response
• Capturing Program Input

Variables

• Naming Variables
• Data Types
• Declaring Variables
• Initialising Variables
• Constants

Arithmetic Expressions

• Arithmetic Operators
• Precedence of Operators
• Data Conversion and Casting

Conditional Structures

• Logical Operators
• If and If...else
• Case Statements and the switch Command
• Labels and goto

Iteration

• While Loops
• Do ... while Loops
• For Loops
• Foreach Loops
• Break and Continue Statements

Data Collections

• Strings
• Arrays
• Pointers
• Basic File Handling

Code Reuse

• Reusable Program Units
• Creating Functions
• Using Libraries

Further Programming Languages

• C++
• Java
• HTML
• JavaScript
• Cobol
• Visual Basic

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Suitable For

This Concepts of Programming course is aimed at newcomers to programming..

Follow-On Courses

• Fundamentals of Java Programming
• PHP Programming
• Perl Programming
• Python Programming
• Ruby Programming

Prerequisites

Understand the command line interface and have used a text editor and a browser. No prior knowledge of programming is required.