Application Development

From IS Curriculum

The core subtopics within Application Development are as follows:

• Problem solving using algorithmic thinking; computational thinking
• Control structures
  • Sequential, conditional, iterative
• Programming concepts
  • Variables (& visibility)
  • Literals
  • Types
  • Expressions
  • Procedures
  • Functions
  • Parameters
  • Operators and operations
• I/O
  • Text-based
  • GUI
• Data structures
  • E.g., primitive data types, composite data types, arrays
  • Memory management
• Integrated development environments
• Database access
• Development approaches
  • E.g., object-oriented, procedural, declarative