COSC480-25X4 (O) Special non-calendar-based Four 2025 (UC Online)

Computer Programming

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 29 September 2025
End Date: Sunday, 30 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 9 November 2025

Description

An introduction for graduate students to imperative computer programming using Python. Topics include: expressions, assignment, selection and iteration, structured data (lists, dictionaries, tuples, arrays), functional decomposition, file processing, using library code, and an introduction to object-oriented programming. Students must develop a significant piece of program code in a project that demonstrates mastery of programming for practical applications, typically in data science.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator

For further information see Computer Science and Software Engineering Head of Department

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,176.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Computer Science and Software Engineering .

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