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Course Main Module : Programming in C++

Duration

Full time : 5 hours per day for 8 weeks
Part time : 2.5 hours per day for 16 weeks
Course days : Monday - Friday

Career Opportunity

Computer programmers in Tanzania are in high demand in Tanzania due to the large number of organisations who have embarked on some of computerisation. Employment is available in both the Government and Private sectors. In the private sector, opportunities exist in user organisations or computer systems companies.

Objectives

1. To provide participants with adequate knowledge of computing required to understand the functionality and operation of computer systems.
2. To provide participants with adequate knowledge of a Principles of Programming and hence enable a thorough understanding of manner in which computer based systems are designed and developed.
3. To provide participants knowledge of a common programming language to level of being able to develop the systems.

Course Structure

This course is concerned with techniques which have been developed to enable the programmers to make effective use of the computer, with emphasis being placed on the software engineering aspects of program design, development and maintenance. The programming language which will be taught is C++.

General Introduction to Computers

• Computer System Structure, General devices and usage, operating system and functions
• Application Software - types and applications.  Use of common application packages - Word Processors and Spreadsheets.  This part of the course will cover practical training on common word processing and spreadsheet packages.

Software design and Development

• The stress in this section will be on basic software engineering principles such as reliability, robustness and maintainability.

The interpretation of a software requirement specification

• The design and representation of algorithms.  A detailed understanding of and the ability to apply, at least one systematic design method - top-down, bottom-up, modular, data-driven, object-oriented etc.  Automated software design tools.
• Structured programming, choice of control structures, graphical and textual representations of design.
• Program development: selection of a language: prototyping: user and programmer documentation.

Data and its structure

• Data types: simple and compound data types and their realisation in the high level and low-level language chosen for study.
• Data Structures: strings, arrays, tables, stacks, queues, lists, trees, contiguous and linked structures.
• File organisation and access: serial, sequential, direct, indexed and inverted files.  Database principles.

Programming Languages

• A detailed knowledge of C++ which includes data types, declaration, assignments, conditionals, looping, subprograms, parameter passing, the proper use of explanatory comments, classes and object-orientation.
• Simple assembly-level programming: symbolic operation codes and operand addresses; absolute and relative addressing; the use of indirect and indexed addresses; directives; macros.

Software Tools

• A user's view of operating systems(interactive, batch and real time) and utility software.
• The programming support environment: types of text editor and their facilities: features and relative merits of compilers and interpreters; linkers and leaders; bootstrapping; filing system and operations and command languages; data dictionaries, DBMS and query languages; program and application generators; source and object program libraries.
• Debugging and tuning tools; trace facilities, source level debuggers cross-references, program formatters, performance monitoring etc.

Testing and Debugging

• Systematic testing: syntactic, semantic and run-time error.   Interpretation of diagnostic messages.  the design of test data, including 'white-box' and 'black-box' approaches; test documentation.
• Systematic debugging and checking; walk-through; user-inserted trace statements; selection of appropriate software tools.