Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives The student is expected to become proficient in the design, development and documentation of computer programs using the Pascal language and to learn the necessary skills to competently use a computer-aided drafting package.
Synopsis Program development, testing, documentation and standards. MS-DOS operating system: editors, executable files, batch files, directory commands. Further features of Pascal: records, sets, text and binary files, recursion, pointers, introduction to graphics, comparisons with other scientific languages. Introduction to a computer-aided drafting package: scales, limits, lines and curves, fillets, objects, layers, text, dimensions.
Assessment Examination: 50% + Assignments and tests: 50%