2022/3, Trimester 1, FACE-TO-FACE, Edinburgh Napier University
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Occurrence: | 001 |
Primary mode of delivery: | FACE-TO-FACE |
Location of delivery: | MERCHISTON |
Partner: | Edinburgh Napier University |
Member of staff responsible for delivering module: | John Owens |
Module Organiser: | |
Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) Approach: |
Learning & Teaching methods including their alignment to LOsA "hands on" approach is taken. Students start writing and testing programs from the start. As a first course in programming it is important for students to become familiar with the habits of programming and to become familiar and confident with the code-test-re-code cycle. In this, the first programming, course students are expected to write code that is effective but is not necessarily elegant or especially well crafted. However they are exposed to examples of well-crafted code and should be able to recognise it. In respecting the learning curve we expect students to become confident at a relatively small range of tasks. This reinforces their familiarity with the basic structure of the language so that use of the syntactic elements (commas, brackets, brace, semi colons and so forth) become second nature and they do not even have to think about it. Only when students have acquired this basic sense of the language are they permitted to move on to more challenging programming problems that require them to develop their own algorithms and think more creatively about programming.
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An interactive, web based teaching system is used in the early part of the course (progzoo.net). This environment provides instant feedback not only at compile time (this is true of any programming environment) but also at run time (this is peculiar to the progzoo system). The system executes the student’s code and the model answer so that the outputs can be compared. The student is informed if their code is correct.
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Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH)) |
Mode of activity | Learning & Teaching Activity | NESH (Study Hours) |
Face To Face | Lecture | 24 |
Face To Face | Practical classes and workshops | 36 |
Online | Guided independent study | 70 |
Independent Learning | Guided independent study | 70 |
| Total Study Hours | 200 |
| Expected Total Study Hours for Module | 200 |
Assessment |
Type of Assessment | Weighting % | LOs covered | Week due | Length in Hours/Words |
Practical Skills Assessment | 25 | 1,2 | 6 | HOURS= 10, WORDS= 0 |
Practical Skills Assessment | 60 | 1,2 | 13 | HOURS= 40, WORDS= 0 |
Practical Skills Assessment | 15 | 1,2 | 14 | HOURS= 20, WORDS= 0 |
Component 1 subtotal: | 100 | |
Component 2 subtotal: | 0 | | | |
Module subtotal: | 100 | | | |