Not available in 2018/19
MA332
Programming in C++
This information is for the 2018/19 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Tugkan Batu COL.4.04
Availability
This course is compulsory on the BSc in Financial Mathematics and Statistics. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
Pre-requisites
Students must have completed Mathematical Methods (MA100).
Course content
This course in an introduction to programming with the C++ programming language. We will cover the lexical basis of C++, fundamental types and basic operators, control structures, functions, pointers and arrays, dynamic memory management, classes, data hiding, constructors and destructors, operator overloading, single inheritance, templates, standard library, exception handling, input and output.
Teaching
10 hours of lectures and 20 hours of computer workshops in the MT.
Formative coursework
Students will work through worksheets provided in the computer workshops.
Indicative reading
D.M. Capper, Introducing C++ for Scientists, Engineers and Mathematicians, Springer.
B. Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, Addison Wesley.
Key facts
Department: Mathematics
Total students 2017/18: Unavailable
Average class size 2017/18: Unavailable
Capped 2017/18: No
Value: Non-credit bearing
PDAM skills
- Self-management
- Problem solving
- Application of information skills
- Application of numeracy skills
- Specialist skills