Programming 2: Techniques, 5 cr

Tampere University

Description
Completion options

Teaching periods

Course code

COMP.CS.110

Language of learning

English, Finnish

Academic years

2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027

Level of study

Basic studies

Grading scale

General scale, 0-5

Persons responsible

Responsible teacher:

Maarit Harsu

Responsible teacher:

Eliisa Väkevä until 31.12.2024

Responsible teacher:

Terhi Kilamo until 31.12.2024

Responsible teacher:

Ari Suntioinen

Responsible teacher:

Mika Saari until 31.12.2024

Responsible organisation

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %

Coordinating organisation

Computing Sciences Studies 100 %

Content

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, pointers, indirect memory access.
Memory and arrays.
Dynamic memory management, linked list, smart pointers.
Version control (in single programmer's projects without remote repositories).
Compiling compared to interpreting.

Complementary knowledge

STL algorithms, more STL containers (list, deque).
Function pointers, pointer arithmetics.
Compilation process (preprocessor, linking).

Learning outcomes

Prerequisites

Compulsory prerequisites

Further information

Learning material

Equivalences

Kokonaisuudet, joihin opintojakso kuuluu

Completion option 1

Grading is based on points from weekly exercises and programming projects as well as on the exam grade. Exam enrollment must be done both in Sisu and Exam sytem: https://exam.tuni.fi.

All parts of the completion option are compulsory.