Course Language:
İngilizce
Course Objectives:
- To develop the programming and problem solving abilities of students
- To present a perspective to students to show intellectually interesting topics of computer science.
- To attract the attention of students to programming who had no previous experience
Course Content:
- To break down a problem into smaller parts
- To create an algorithm to solve a problem and to convert the algorithm to a Python program.
- To write tests to identify the errors in a program.
- To identify some important current problems of computer science.
- To identify some sub-categories of computer science such as functional programming, object oriented programming and complexity of programming.
Course Methodology:
Teaching Methods: 1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 9: Simulation, 12: Case Study
Course Evaluation Methods:
A: Testing, B: Homework
Vertical Tabs
Course Learning Outcomes
| Learning Outcomes | Program Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| Analyzing a problem and a system | 1,2,3,4 | Discussion/ Simulation/ Case Study | Testing |
| To develop a software to solve the analyzed problem | 1,2,3,4 | Discussion/ Simulation/ Case Study | Testing |
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To test and debug a program
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1,2,3,4 | Discussion/ Simulation/ Case Study | Testing |
| To analyze input and output data | 1,2,3,4 | Discussion/ Simulation/ Case Study | Testing |
Course Flow
| COURSE CONTENT | ||
| Week | Topics | |
| 1 | Introduction to computers, programming and Python | |
| 2 | Variables, Expressions and Statements | |
| 3 | Draw shapes and patterns in Python (turtle) | |
| 4 | Functions | |
| 5 |
Conditionals |
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| 6 | Fruitful functions | |
| 7 |
Midterm
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| 8 |
Iteration |
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| 9 | Strings | |
| 10 | Tuples and event handling | |
| 11 | Lists | |
| 12 | Modules | |
| 13 | Files | |
| 14 | Classes and Objects | |
| 15 | Final | |
Recommended Sources
| RECOMMENDED SOURCES | |
| Textbook | How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python (2nd ed.), Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers, Samurai Media Limited, United Kingdom, 2016. |
| Additional Resources | Starting Out with Python, Global Edition, (4th ed.), Tony Gaddis, Pearson, 2018. |
Material Sharing
| MATERIAL SHARING | |
| Documents | |
| Assignments | |
| Exams | |
Assessment
| ASSESSMENT | ||
| IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 60 |
| Assignment | 4 | 40 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade | 50 | |
| Contribution of In-Term Studies to Overall Grade | 50 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Course’s Contribution to Program
| COURSE’S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM | |||||||
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop the complete systems for multi-media visual user interface. | ||||||
| 2 | Information Systems graduates have advanced knowledge and skills to design, develop and install the application systems for multi-media. | ||||||
| 3 | Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design, develop and apply algorithms and data structures to solve the basic problems of information processing, within the framework of discrete mathematics. | x | |||||
| 4 | Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop computer applications, based on user specificed requirements, using modern structured development tools and install them on various hardware platforms and deploy their usage. | x | |||||
| 5 | Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop computer applications, based on user specificed requirements, using modern object-oriented development tools and install them on various hardware platforms and deploy their usage. | x | |||||
| 6 | Information Systems graduates know the logic of computer operating systems, the basic set of system commands, how to control access to system resources by users of different departments and how to monitor the running of jobs in the system. | x | |||||
| 7 | Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop data models serving different requirements, database applications that would access and process data using various types of software, including queries, reports and business applications. | ||||||
| 8 | Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop business applications that would provide data access, modification and processing for data kept in enterprise database systems. | ||||||
| 9 | Information Systems graduates have the knowledge about computer networks, and have the skills to design, develop and monitor computer networks, how to configure them and how to maintain their performance. | ||||||
| 10 | Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop visual user interfaces for the web, web-based applications for n-tier client/server configurations, how to deploy them in enterprises. | ||||||
ECTS
None