COMP6710 Structured Programming
S1S26 units6000-level
This is an introductory programming course that teaches basic concepts in imperative and object-oriented programming and corresponding data structures for students with some previous programming experience. Students will learn to use an industrial-strength object-oriented programming language and form basic mental models of how computer programs execute and interact with their environment. The course focuses on key aspects of solving programming problems: reasoning about a problem description to design appropriate data representations and function/method descriptions, to find examples, to write, test, debug, and otherwise evaluate the relevant code, and to present and defend their approach. Students will learn to effectively use a large standard library and key standard data structures, including lists, trees, hash tables, and graphs. The course also introduces the basics of reasoning about the time and space complexity of algorithms, in particular as related to the above data structures.
- 2024S1 S2
- 2025S1 S2
- 2026S1 S2
- 2027S1 S2
Prerequisites in 2027
No prerequisites
None: anyone in a postgraduate program can enrol, with the exception below.
Closed to students in the Master of Computing (Advanced).
Incompatible with COMP1110, COMP1140, COMP7710: you can't count both.
The handbook's wording, and when it changed
You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed COMP6700 or COMP1110 or if you are enrolled in the Master of Computing (Advanced).
You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed COMP1110 OR COMP1140 OR if you are enrolled in the Master of Computing (Advanced).
You are not able to enrol in this course if you are enrolled in the Master of Computing (Advanced). Incompatible with COMP1110 OR COMP1140 OR COMP7710 .
What it leads to in 2027
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- COMP6442 Software Construction
- COMP6464 High Performance Scientific Computing
- COMP6466 Algorithms
- COMP6490 Document Analysis
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