Programming 1: Introduction to Programming, 5 cr

Core content

• The concepts program and algorithm. Designing and testing small programs.
• Dividing program into smaller entities: functions. Passing parameters and return values.
• Control structures.
• Variables. Scope. Data types.
• Strings and lists.
  
• Basic operations of file handling.
• Good programming practices.
  

Complementary knowledge

• Sets and dictionaries.
• Combining data structures.
• Basics of classes and objects.

Specialist knowledge

• Default values of parameters.
• Function parameters.
  
• Special methods.
• Tuples.