Programming Course Content 20111

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Languages

Keeping up with the language standards

C

• the standard that we currently teach in our C courses is C89
• C99 introduced several new features and deprecated several features
  • //
  • long long
  • variable length arrays
  • inline functions
  • variadic macros
  • gets() deprecated
• C11 has been published and approved
  • support international programming, minimize incompatibilities
  • improved Unicode support
  • multi-threading
  • _Generic keyword
  • to be completed
  • as of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft had no plans to support C99
• shouldn't we start to teach C11?

C++

• the standard that we teach is a mixture of pre-standard C++ and C++98
  • C and function style casts were deprecated in C++98
• C++11 has been approved and published
• shouldn't we remove our dependencies on pre-standard C++?

Java

We are teaching Java at 1.4 level

• Must include Generics & Annotations

Professional Options

• what are the minimum requirements for professional options ?
• are those requirements being met by our core courses?

Game Programming

• GAM666/DPS901 brings together programming and systems for the first time
• should enrollment in the introductory course be capped
• should CPD students be given the option to take introductory game programming (faculty == yes)
  • top CPD students who enroll often do well in this course
• should workshops be added to these courses
• should we issue game programming certificates

Open Source

• what are the minimum requirements for open source students ?
• are those requirements being met ?

Software Support

C and C++ Courses

• nled
• Borland - should we remove this compiler from our course notes
• Visual Studio 2010
• GNU gcc, g++