Introduction to Programming

• Week 1 notes (slides)
  • Course overview
  • Lecturer
  • Lab Tutor
  • Learning outcomes
  • Resources
  • Where can I practise programming?
  • Can I practise programming on my PC / Mac?
  • How do I use the Windows compiler?
  • I am still having problems with the Windows compiler. How about a video?
  • Assessment
  • Lab exam rules
  • Summer exam
  • Acknowledgement
• Week 1 exercises
  • Course overview
  • Entering, compiling and running programs
  • Linux commands at a glance
  • A simple calculator
• Week 2 notes (slides)
  • Hello world
  • Variables
  • Integer arithmetic
  • Floating point arithmetic
  • Strings
  • Data input
• Week 2 exercises
  • Summing numbers
  • Multiplying numbers
  • Printing strings
  • Perimeter and area of a square
  • Perimeter and area of a circle
  • Volume of a cone
  • Fahrenheit to Celsius converter
  • Stones and pounds to kilograms
• Week 3 notes (slides)
  • Decisions
  • Combining logical tests
  • Negation
  • if...else
  • switch
• Week 3 exercises
  • Ordering numbers
  • Minimum of three numbers
  • Water
  • Digits
  • Days in a month
  • The elevator
  • Grades
  • Even and odd numbers
  • Triangles
  • Leap years
• Week 4 notes(slides)
  • while loops
  • do...while loops
  • A simple menu program
• Week 4 exercises
  • Printing numbers
  • Printing more numbers
  • Printing even more numbers
  • Summing numbers
  • An infinite loop
  • Maximum value during loop
  • Minimum value during loop
  • Detecting successive identical values
  • Interest
  • Double your money
  • Fibonacci
• Week 5 notes
  • Revision
• Week 5 exercises
  • Summing numbers
  • Maximum value in a loop
  • Minimum value in a loop
  • Summing until sentinel
  • Factorial
  • Debugging code
• Week 6 notes
• Week 6 exercises
• Week 7 notes(slides)
  • Some more arithmetic operators
  • for loops
  • Some more for loops
  • Summing numbers with a for loop
• Week 7 exercises
  • Summing a series with a while loop
  • Summing a series with a for loop
  • Summing another series with a for loop
  • Summing one last series with a for loop
• Week 8 notes(slides)
  • Arrays
  • Initialising an array
  • Displaying array contents
  • Constants
  • Summing the elements of an array
  • Finding the maximum value in an array
• Week 8 exercises
  • Practice with one-dimensional arrays
  • More practice with one-dimensional arrays
  • Sorting a one-dimensional array
  • Using one-dimensional arrays for some vector calculations
• Week 9 notes(slides)
  • Sorting an array
  • Two-dimensional arrays
  • Summing elements of a two-dimensional array
  • Matrix multiplication
• Week 9 exercises
  • Summing two-dimensional arrays
  • Symmetric matrix
  • Transpose of a matrix
  • Printing rows
  • Printing columns
  • Summing diagonals
  • Going to the theatre
  • Matrix multiplication
  • Matrix multiplication solution
• Week 10 notes(slides)
  • Functions
  • Functions with arguments
  • Multiple arguments
  • Returning data from a function
  • What if a function does not return a value?
• Week 10 exercises
  • Volume of a sphere
  • Returning the volume of a sphere
  • Calling a function in a loop
  • Volume of a cone
  • Graphing a function
• Week 11 notes(slides)
  • Pass by value
  • Pass by reference
  • Returning more than one value from a function
• Week 11 exercises
  • Decrementer
  • Swapper
  • Converter
  • Minimum and maximum
  • Quadratic roots
  • Revision
• Week 12 notes
• Week 12 exercises
• Lab exam 1 (2014)
  • Lab exam: Question 1
  • Lab exam: Question 2
  • Lab exam: Question 3
  • Lab exam: Question 4
  • Lab exam: Question 5
• Lab exam 2 (2014)
  • Lab exam: Question 1
  • Lab exam: Question 2
  • Lab exam: Question 3
  • Lab exam: Question 4
  • Lab exam: Question 5