Programming and Algorithms

Week 1 Introduction to the module, to PSEUDOCODE, and to PYTHON.
Week 2 TOP-DOWN DESIGN, SEQUENCE and VARIABLES.
Week 3 SELECTION, IF Statement, CASE Statement, Boolean logic.
Week 4 ITERATION, WHILE loop, FOR, DO and LOOP loop.
Week 5 Some common algorithms: PRIME NUMBERS, FIBONACCI NUMBERS and COMPRESSION.
Week 6 Looking at MODULARISATION. Introduction to SOFTWARE TESTING.
Week 7 Complex Data Structures, ARRAYS, Searching using SEQUENTIAL and BINARY SEARCH.
Week 8 We will also look at some simple STATISTICS, as well as the BUBBLESORT algorithm, and looking at ways of OPTIMISING bubblesort.
Week 9 The SELECTIONSORT algorithm. Multi-dimensional arrays.
Week 10 ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES, TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURES, and UNIVERSAL DESIGN.
Week 11 STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING and MENU-DRIVEN PROGRAMS
Week 12 Bringing it all together.