Advanced Programming Techniques

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES

COURSE OUTLINE

1. GENERAL

SCHOOL	School of Engineering
ACADEMIC UNIT	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
LEVEL OF STUDIES	Undergraduate
COURSE CODE	0811.7.022.0	SEMESTER	1st
COURSE TITLE	Advanced Programming Techniques

INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES if credits are awarded for separate components of the course	WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS	CREDITS
	3	2
	1	1
	1	1
Total	5	4

COURSE TYPE general background, special background, specialised general knowledge, skills development	Specialized knowledge/Core
PREREQUISITE COURSES	None
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION and EXAMINATIONS	Greek
OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS	Yes (in English) — Winter Semester
COURSE WEBSITE (URL)	https://eclass.hmu.gr/courses/ECE203/

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning outcomes

The course "Advanced Programming Techniques" aims to provide students with the necessary knowledge in medium and large-scale programming, and to deepen their understanding of the C programming language, by examining specific language topics. Special functions of the language will be examined, a brief review of C memory management techniques will be provided, extensive reference to files will be made, and specific topics of compilation, linking multiple files, and elements of multithreaded programming will be discussed.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

Create and compile multi-file programs.
Implement and manipulate complex data structures.
Practice using files in computer storage peripheral units.

Develop parallel processing programs using multithreaded programming.

General Competences

Searching, analyzing, and synthesizing data and information using the necessary technologies.
Adaptation to new situations.
Autonomous work.
Teamwork.
Generating new research ideas.

3. SYLLABUS

Units of Theoretical Lectures

C preprocessor (directives, macros).
Special operators and types (bit operators, enumerated types).
Pointers and functions (pointers to arrays, arrays of pointers, pointers to pointers, pointers to functions, functions with variable number of arguments, recursion).
Dynamic memory allocation and applications (functions, dynamic arrays, lists, trees, graphs).
Special compilation topics (command line parameters, programs with multiple files, error handling).
Input-output, files (streams, accessing text and binary files).
C libraries (string, time, stdlib, etc.).
Multithreaded programming (thread creation and usage, mutex, semaphores, etc.).

Laboratory Exercises

Exercises using the C programming language and Dev C++ software and Linux (gcc).

4. TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION

DELIVERY
Face-to-face, Distance learning, etc.

In-Class Face-to-Face

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Use of ICT in teaching, laboratory education, communication with students

Use of ICT in teaching
Use of ICT in laboratory training
Use of ICT in communication with students via the e-class electronic platform

TEACHING METHODS
The manner and methods of teaching are described in detail.

Activity	Semester workload
Weekly homework exercises	7
Non-guided personal study	40
Laboratory	13
Group workshop activities	8
Lectures	52
Course total	120

STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Description of the evaluation procedure

Language of Assessment: Greek

Assessment methods:

Written final exam with problem solving (75%)
Group laboratory work (report and oral examination) (15%)

Weekly homework exercises (10%) Assessment criteria are announced to students at the beginning of the semester and are posted on the course website on eClass.

5. ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

“C: From Theory to Implementation”, G. S. Tselikis and N. D. Tselikas, ISBN: 978-960-93-1961-4.
"C Programming in Depth" by N. M. Chatzigiannakis, Klidarithmos Publications, ISBN 978-960-461-715-9. (In Greek)
”Teach Yourself C Programming in 21 Days” by P. Aitken & B. L. Jones, Sams Publications, ISBN 978-067-230-736-2.
"Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms. Implementation in C" by I. Papoutsis, Ath. Stamoulis Publications, ISBN 978-960-351-832-7. (In Greek)