COURSE OUTLINE Course Code: SCP1103 Course Name: C Programming Techniques Total Contact Hours: 42 hours Course Pre-requisite: None SYNOPSIS As a fundamental subject, this course equips the students with theory and practice on problem solving techniques by using the structured approach. Students are required to develop programs using C programming language, in order to solve simple to moderate problems. The course covers the following: preprocessor directives, constants and variables, data types, input and output statements, text files, control structures: sequential, selection and loop. It may also include arrays and basic library functions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the course, students should be able to: Course Learning Outcome
Programme Learning Outcome(s) Addressed
Assessment Methods
1.
Solve problems systematically using a structured logic approach.
PO1 (C3, , P2, A2)
LE, Q, A, T, F
2.
Construct a C++ program correctly from the analyzed problems using structured approach.
PO2(C3, P2, A2)
LE, Q, A, T, F
3.
Construct or develop complete C++ programs for simple to moderate problems individually.
PO2 (C3, P2, A2)
LE, A, T, F
No.
(T – Test ; Q – Quiz; A – Assignment; LE – Lab exercise ; F – Final Exam)
STUDENT LEARNING TIME Teaching and Learning Activities
Face to face Learning
Lecturer Centered
Lecture
Student Centered
- Practical/Lab/Tutorial
Others
Self Learning
Sub Total Non Face to face or Student Centered Learning (SCL) Revision Assessment Preparation Others Sub Total
Student Learning Time (hours) 21 21 0 42 34 18 15 0 67
Formal Assessment
Continuous Assessment Final Examination Others Sub Total
8 3 0 11
TOTAL SLT
120
TEACHING METHODOLOGY Lecture and Discussion, Co-operative Learning, Lab Activities
WEEKLY SCHEDULE Week
Topics
Activities/hours
Week 1
1.0 Introduction to Computers and Programming 1.1 Introduction to a Program 1.2 Computer Systems: Hardware and Software 1.3 Programs and Programming Languages 1.4 Procedural and Object-Oriented Programming
Lecture/Lab: 3
Week 2 - 3
2.0 Problem-solving process 2.1 Input, Processing, and Output 2.2 The Programming Process 2.3 System Development
Lecture/Lab: 6
3.0 Problem-solving techniques 3.1 Pseudocode 3.2 Flowchart 3.3 Structured chart Weeks 4
Week 5
Week 6
4.0 Introduction to C 4.1 Variables 4.2 Identifiers 4.3 Data types 4.4 Basic arithmetic operators
Lecture/Lab: 3
5.0 Arithmetic Expression 5.1 Mathematical Expressions 5.2 Type Conversion 5.3 Overflow and Underflow 5.4 Type Casting 5.5 Named Constants 5.6 Multiple Assignments and Combined Assignment
Lecture/Lab: 3
6.0 Input/Output operations 6.1 Formatting Output 6.2 Formatted Input 6.3 Focus on debugging: Hand tracing a Program 6.4 Focus problem solving: A case study 6.5 Introduction to File Input and Output
Lecture/Lab: 3
Assessment: Assignment 1: Pseudocode/Flowchart
Assessment: Quiz 1 Lab Exercise 1
Week 7
7.0 Control structure: Selection/Branch 7.1 The if statement 7.2 The if/else statement 7.3 The if/else if statement 7.4 The switch statement 7.5 The break, continue statement
Lecture/Lab: 3 Assessment: Quiz 2 Assignment 2: if statement Mid-Semester Test
Week 8
8.0 Control structure: Loop 8.1 The for loop 8.2 The while-do loop
Lecture/Lab: 3 Assessment: Lab Exercise 2
Week 9
8.0 Control structure: Loop (CONT.) 8.3 The do-while loop 8.4 Nested loop
Lecture/Lab: 3
Week 10- 11
9.0 Function: 9.1 Predefined/library function 9.2 User-defined function
Lecture/Lab: 6
Week 12
10.0 Array: One dimension 10.1 Declaration and definition 10.2 Accessing arrays
Lecture/Lab: 3 Assessment: Assignment 3: Array Quiz 3
Week 13-14
11.0 Array: Two dimension 11.1 Declaration and definition 11.2 Accessing arrays
Lecture/Lab: 6 Assessment: Lab Exercise 4
Week 15-16
REFERENCES :
Assessment: Lab Exercise 3
STUDY WEEK EXAMINATION WEEK
Courses Notes:
From text book or any other reliable resources. Main Text:
1. H.M Deitel, P.J Deitel. C How to Program, 6th edition. 2007. Pearson Education. Other References:
1. Byron, S. Gottfried. Programming with C. 2nd .Edition, 2007, McGraw Hill. 2. Delores M. Etter, Engineering Problem Solving, 3rd edition. 2004. Pearson (Prentice-Hall). 3. Jeri R. Hanly, Elliot B. Koffman, Problem Solving and Program Design in C , 5th edition. 2007. Addison-Wesley. 4. Dayang Norhayati Abang Jawawi dan Rosbi Mamat, Pengenalan Mudah Pengaturcaraan C,2001. 5. Any C Programming books.
GRADING No.
Assessment
Number
% each
% total
1
Assignments
3
8.33%
25
2
Quizzes
3
5%
15
3
Lab Exercises
4
2.5%
10
4
Mid-Semester Exam
1
20%
20
5
Final Exam
1
30%
30
Overall Total
100
