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UNSW Computing
 
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Contact: 
Buckland,Richard James
Taylor,Andrew John
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 

Description

An exclusion exists between COMP1021, COMP1091, COMP1721 and COMP1911. Students are not permitted to take more than one of these courses.

The objective of this course is for students to develop proficiency in programming in a high level imperative language and to develop a background of relevant knowledge and skills on which to base further study of computing. Topics covered include: fundamental programming concepts, program testing and debugging, the underlying memory representation of data, unix literacy, version control, programming style, professional issues. Practical experience of these topics is supplied by laboratory programming exercises and assignments.

No prior computing background is required.

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