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Introduction to Programming IA - INP1501

Diploma Year module NQF level: 5 Credits: 12
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The purpose of the module is to introduce students to programming and to cover the fundamentals of data and control structures, techniques for problem solving and algorithm design, input and output of data from and to the standard input/output streams. Data types and structures which are covered are floating point, integer, character, string, boolean, one and two dimensional arrays. The C++ decision and iteration structures that are covered include if, while, for, switch and do..while. Furthermore, functions with both reference and value parameters are covered, as well as struts.