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Programming paradigms
- show understanding of what is meant by a programming paradigm
- show understanding of the characteristics of a number of programming paradigms (low-level, imperative, object-oriented, declarative)
- imperative programming – see details in Section 2.3
- low-level programming – demonstrate an ability to write low-level code that uses various address modes: immediate, direct, indirect, indexed and relative (see Section 1.4.3 and Section 3.6.2)
- object-oriented programming (OOP) – demonstrate an ability to solve a problem by designing appropriate classes
- demonstrate an ability to write code that demonstrates the use of classes, inheritance, polymorphism and containment (aggregation)
- declarative programming
- demonstrate an ability to solve a problem by writing appropriate facts and rules based on supplied information
- demonstrate an ability to write code that can satisfy a goal using facts and rules
File processing
- write code to define a record structure
- write code to perform file-processing operations: open or close a file; read or write a record to a file
- use pseudocode for random file handling:
- OPENFILE <filename> FOR RANDOM
- SEEK <address> // get a pointer to the disk address for the record
- GETRECORD <filename>,<identifier>
- PUTRECORD <filename>,<identifier>
- write code to perform file-processing operations on serial, sequential and random files
Exception handling
- show understanding of an exception and the importance of exception handling
- show understanding of when it is appropriate to use exception handling
- write code to use exception handling in practical programming
Use of development tools/programming environments
- describe features in editors that benefit programming
- know when to use compilers and interpreters
- describe facilities available in debuggers and how and when they should be deployed
- show understanding of a range of software development methodologies: waterfall, RapidApplication Development (RAD), Agile
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