CSSE Summer Programme
Headstart200 / Advanced Computing
This course is for students who intend to enter directly into second-year Computer Science (COSC) courses. Entry is by approval of the Head of Department. Normally, you would have achieved excellent NCEA Level 3 results and/or have significant computing experience. You will study prepared material at your own pace over the summer break and meet regularly with a specialist course tutor.
The cost of this course for summer 2008-2009 was $175.
You will learn
- Programming concepts and development tools, object-oriented processes.
- Programming fundamentals: primative data storage, readability and style issues, debugging concepts and tools.
- Programming grammer and syntax.
- Decision contructs, logic operators, loop contructs and basic program structure ideas.
- Abstract Data Types and Object-Oriented techniques.
- Application of data structures such as arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, binary trees, and hash tables.
- An introduction to managing computational complexity.
- Application of algorithmns in simple sorting, trees and heaps.
- Introduction to graphs.
- Analysing data structures and algorithms by practical applications.
How do I enrol in Headstart200 / Advanced Computing?
Contact us via e-mail and we'll guide you from there.
For course information contact
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
T: +64 3 364 2362
F: +64 3 364 2569
These courses are advertised by UC Opportunity but run by Computer Science and Software Engineering.