This unit is EMAT10006 - Further Computer Programming. It is intended to follow on from EMAT10007 - Introduction to Computer Programming!
The intro unit introduces programming with Python and is intended for students with no prior background in programming. The Further Computer Programming (FCP) unit is intended to focus more on supporting skills for programming such as:
Using the terminal
Using version control with git
Working collaboratively on a single codebase
Working with larger codebases
Principles of software engineering
Using some common Python libraries
The idea is to build on knowing the basics of programming itself and to gain a greater understanding of how programming is used professionally and some commonly needed skills.
| Week | Type | Activity | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Term | Welcome | Terminals |
| 14 | Term | worksheet | Git and github |
| 15 | Term | worksheet | |
| 16 | Term | worksheet | |
| 17 | Term | worksheet | |
| 18 | Consolidation | - | |
| 19 | Term | worksheet | |
| 20 | Term | Assignment released | |
| 21 | Term | Group meetings | |
| 22 | Term | Group meetings | |
| E1 | Easter | - | |
| E2 | Easter | - | |
| E3 | Easter | - | |
| 23 | Term | DEADLINE | |
| 24 | Term | No class |
Materials made available on the website/Blackboard
Worksheet about the topic to do in the lab
2hr lab on Mondays (1300-1500 or 1500-1700 in MVB 2.11 - also on Remo)
Dropin session (Friday 1300 MVB 2.11 - also on Remo)
Each week in the lab the topic and materials for the week will be introduced and there will be time to go through the worksheet and get help from TAs. The worksheet might take longer than the lab and can be finished in your own time. The dropin session is another chance to get one to one help.
Some details TBC
In the second half of the unit you will work on group projects.
The assessment will be a group project working on simulations, data analysis and plotting.
Single coursework
Deadline Friday week 23
Group coursework (groups of 4-5)
Different tasks within a shared codebase (using github)
Group report in the repo
Individual short report
More details later