Computer science B.U.T., first year

Writing your first programs

Write, trace and fix a simple program, with its basic data structures and algorithms.

Programming with objects

Design a program as classes and objects, from the UML diagram to running code.

Code that works and that others can pick up

Find your errors, prove with tests that the code works and keep its history in Git.

Building a web page

Write a valid HTML page, style it with CSS for every screen and make it accessible.

Designing an interface people understand

Design, program and assess a graphical interface its users understand without a manual.

What happens inside the machine

Encode information in bits and follow, instruction by instruction, what the machine does with it, from the gate to the executable.

Commanding an operating system

Use, administer and automate a Linux machine from the command line.

Making machines talk

Explain and set up a small network, from the Ethernet frame to a service reachable by name.

Modelling and querying a database

Turn a need into a sound relational schema, then create, query and change the database in SQL..

Sound reasoning: logic, sets, arithmetic

Write and check a proof, handle sets, relations and Boolean functions, compute with integers and count without missing or double-counting anything.

Solving a problem with a graph

Turn a problem into a graph, then run by hand the algorithm that solves it: traversal, spanning tree, shortest path, scheduling, colouring, flow.

The tools of calculation: equations, matrices, functions

Carry a calculation through without slipping: solve an equation or a system, compute with matrices, study a function and a polynomial, reason with vectors in the plane.

Sequences and approximate calculation

Compute and study a sequence, prove by induction, and get an approximate value of a root, a curve or an integral while knowing the error made.

Describing data with numbers and charts

Sum up a data series with its indicators, pick the chart that shows it and fit a line to a scatter plot.

How the economy works

Explain how prices, growth, unemployment and inflation come about, and what the state and the central bank can do about them.

Shrinking the footprint of digital technology

Measure what digital technology costs the environment and pick, with figures, the levers that really shrink that footprint.

Who runs tech

Know who employs IT people, how those employers are organised, and where the money comes from in services, data and the new models.

Understand the organisation that employs you

Describe an organisation, read its structure, diagnose its strategy with the classic tools and see what digital technology changes in the way it is managed.

Reading a company's accounts

Record an entry, read a balance sheet and an income statement, work out a cost and a break-even point, and tell whether a company is healthy.

Running a software project

Scope a project, break it down, schedule it, cost it and track it through to delivery.

Foundations of law

Read a rule, find the competent court and solve a simple case of liability, evidence or contract..

English for IT

Read documentation, a tutorial or a requirements specification in English and write technical documentation, with the words of the trade.

English at work

Apply for a job, write, speak up and work in a team in English.

Communicating at work

Know how to find information, gather a need, write the documents of the trade, hold a defence or a meeting and support users, choosing each time the form that suits the reader or listener.

Computer science B.U.T. year one