italian version

Aims :

The course aims at introducing the student to the digital representation of
information and to the structured computer programming.

Topics :

Digital representation of text: ASCII, ISO_8859/1-15, UNICODE, UTF-8.
Digital representation of sounds, images and videos.
Binary code for Natural, Integer and Real Numbers.
Arithmetic operations.
Von Neumann's architecture.
Functional architecture of a microprocessor (IA-32).
Storage Devices.
Assembly programming:
operands, instructions, directives and labels, subroutines, stack, "call" and
"ret", modular programming, I/O, compilation.
Imperative languages and Structured Programming.
Software, copyright and copyleft.
C++ programming:
Data types. Type conversion. Library functions.
Assignment. Arithmetic, logical and relational operators.
I/O-stream and file-stream.
Conditional Instructions and control flow.
Jump instructions. Bohm-Jacopini's theorem.
Recursion.
Pointers and references.
Passing arguments to functions. Array. Strings.
Arrays as arguments of functions. Structs. Dynamic memory.
Lists.

Textbooks :

Deitel & Deitel, C++ Fondamenti di Programmazione e progettazione orientata
agli oggetti con UML®, APOGEO
A. Domenici e G. Frosini, Introduzione alla Programmazione ed Elementi di
Programmazione Strutturata con il Linguaggio C++, Franco Angeli

Exam :

programming test and oral examination

Tutorial Session :

Tuesday, 16-20