Software Engineering 1: Lecture Notes

Barry McMullin

Last Modified: 12th April 1995

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• Introduction
• General Comments on Lectures
• Background
• Chapter 1 pp. 1-10
  • Overview
  • First Step: Understand the problem!
  • What's a "high-level" computer language?
  • Watch for the new technical terms!
  • Caution: On Program Style
• Chapter 2 pp. 11-19
  • What's all this about "Boolean" variables?
  • Making a statement!
  • Branching and Looping
  • A Shady Character?
  • The newline Character - and other vagaries!
  • Variables, Data Types and Arrays
  • The Dreaded Array Indexing Bugs
• Chapter 2 pp. 20-26
  • What's a function anyway?
  • Moving Data Around
  • Recursion
• Copyright
• About this document ...