Course overview
This course provides students with an entry-level foundation in
computer programming. The goals of the course are to develop the
programming ability in students, and to improve their proficiency in
applying the computing fundamentals to their field of study. Topics
include overview of high-level languages, introduction to C/C++
Library, basic data types, function definitions and declarations,
conditional and iteration statement, array and string manipulation,
recursive programming, introduction to searching and sorting and
introduction to structures and pointers. In summary, the basic aim is
to teach the student to program in C/C++ at a level where they are able
to eventually write programs to help solve their everyday engineering,
science and technology related problems.