Course overview
This course presents students with open-ended and complex programming problems that focus on developing their software design and implementation skills. The course will also introduce software engineering principles, and particularly approaches to software quality.
Course learning outcomes
- Recognise the broad algorithmic category to which a problem belongs, e.g. brute-force, recursive, dynamic programming, divide-and-conquer
- Formulate a short solution sketch to a programming problem
- Demonstrate the ability to quickly assess the efficiency of a proposed solution with respect to expected input data
- Build your own process of design, testing, experimentation and programming
- Apply your own process to the timely production of solutions to a range of programming problems
- Complete practice examples with reasonable frequency in a timely manner
- Demonstrate the ability to reflect in detail on your own programming performance and software development processes in a frequent, timely and useful manner
- Designing and/or selecting new practice exercises in to address gaps in performance highlighted by your reflections