SC5001 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL THINKING & PROGRAMMING

Computational thinking (CT) is the mental skills and practices for solving problems and designing computations. Computations are complex series of numerical calculations and symbolic manipulations which a computer follows to do jobs for us. The aim of this course is hence to have students master the CT methods where you are able to analyse a problem then design and express its solution in such a way that a computer can effectively carry it out. It includes a number of characteristics, such as breaking a complex problem into a number of smaller/simpler problems, logically ordering numerical calculations and symbolic manipulations to create solutions that can be effectively implemented as programs, running on a computer. Student will also learn a programming language. In addition, the course will include topics to appreciate the internal operations of a processor.