Unit information: Programming in C in 2011/12

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Unit name Programming in C
Unit code COMSM1211
Credit points 20
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director Dr. Campbell
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department Department of Computer Science
Faculty Faculty of Engineering

Description including Unit Aims

This unit teaches the student how to program in the language C. It covers the basic syntax of the language and introduces the students to algorithms, data structures and file structures for searching, sorting, string processing, tree searching. Some analysis of algorithms is undertaken with the coverage of topics such as big O notation; logarithmic, linear, polynomial, and exponential algorithms; and simple analysis of space and time complexity of algorithms.