Programming 2: Structures, 5 cr

Tampere University

Description
Completion options

Teaching periods

Course code

COMP.CS.110

Language of instruction

English, Finnish

Academic years

2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2023–2024

Level of study

Basic studies

Grading scale

General scale, 0-5

Persons responsible

Responsible teacher:

Terhi Kilamo

Responsible teacher:

Maarit Harsu

Responsible teacher:

Mika Saari

Responsible teacher:

Eliisa Väkevä

Responsible organisation

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %

Coordinating organisation

Computing Sciences Studies 100 %

Core content

Dividing program code into manageable parts and other style issues.
Modularity and use of classes.
Basics of object-oriented programming.
Recursion.
STL (Standard Template Library).
Basic containers (vector, set, map).
Iterators.
Values, references, and pointers.
Dynamic memory management.
Basics of dynamic data structures.
Linked list.
Smart pointers.
Basics of programming graphical user interfaces.
Most common GUI widgets.
Basics of signal-slot mechanism.
Version control (in single programmer's projects).
Compiling compared to interpreting.

Complementary knowledge

Basics of inheritance.
STL algorithms.
More STL containers (list, deque).
Function pointers.
Pointer arithmetics.
Arrays.
More GUI widgets.
Remote repositories in version control.
Compilation process (preprocessor, linking).

Learning outcomes

Prerequisites

Compulsory prerequisites

Further information

Learning material

Equivalences

Studies that include this course

Completion option 1

Grading is based on points from weekly exercises and programming projects as well as on the exam grade. Exam enrollment: https://exam.tuni.fi. In autumn 2021, there is also a one-period implementation on period II.

Completion of all options is required.