Programming Stream Work in Progress 20111
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Programming Stream | Market Demand | Course Content | Work in Progress | Members | Issues
Contents
Strategy
- marketing through transparency
- comprehensive web presence with visible depth
- student-centered teaching techniques
- recent hard-copy publication presence
Implementation Details
- course design for our particular spectrum of students
- four-stage exposure of course material
- lectures
- in-class exercises
- workshops
- assignments - real-world related to maximize motivation
- tutorial support for weakly structured domains (Jordan and Chris)
- examples only
- examples and problems
- problems only
- four-stage exposure of course material
- public course web sites (editable by instructors alone)
- comprehensive view of the course material
- lecture notes
- in-class exercises
- workshop problems
- assignment specifications
- practice problems
- creative commons attribution only 2.5 license - faculty copyright
- readily upgradable from semester to semester
- integration of course web sites within the SCS Drupal site
- should any sections be excluded
- comprehensive view of the course material
- Moodle learning management system - password protected
- assignment submission mechanism
- grade reporting mechanism
- forums and discussion boards
- wikis
- open for editing by registered members
- course notes
- colour coded to facilitate readability
Implementation Status
Course Code | Web Site | In-Class | Workshops | Tutorial Support | Assignments | SCS Integration | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BTP100 | btp100 | btp100/pages/exercises | btp100/pages/workshops | to be considered | btp100/pages/assignments | to be considered | on schedule |
BTP200 | btp200 | btp200/pages/exercises | btp200/pages/workshops | to be considered | btp200/pages/assignments | to be considered | on schedule |
BTP300 | btp300 | btp300/pages/exercises | btp300/pages/workshops | to be considered | btp300/pages/assignments | to be considered | well ahead |
OOP244 | oop244 | oop244/pages/exercises | oop244/pages/workshops | partially implementented | oop244/pages/assignments | to be considered | on schedule |
GAM666 | gam666 | to be considered | to be implemented | to be considered | to be considered | to be considered | on schedule |
Published Course Notes
The TEL Series on Software Development
- Initially a four volume series
- Up to date with current standards
- Public web pages converted to printed form
- Designed for use in tests and exams as well as lectures
- Printed at Newnham and sold in the Bookstore
- Affordable to our students
- Colour versions can be printed once the colour costing drops
- Creative Commons Attribution only 2.5 license
Title | Courses | Remarks |
---|---|---|
Introduction to the C Language | IPC144 BTP100 | content to be reviewed |
Introduction to C++ for C Programmers | OOP244 BTP200 | December 2010 edition |
Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ | OOP344 BTP300 | content to be reorganized |
Introduction to Game Programming for C++ Programmers | GAM666 DPS901 | content to be compressed |
Software Support
C and C++ Courses
- nled
- Borland - should we remove this compiler from our course notes
- Visual Studio 2010
- GNU gcc, g++
- Frameworks
- fwk4gps