This course is an introduction to Computer Science. Its goal is to help the students develop problem-solving skills, computational thinking, and acquire the fundamental programming skills necessary during the rest of the curriculum. The goals of this course are:
We will study several simple computational problems, some of the algorithms that solve them, and discuss these solutions.
We will learn structured and procedural programming in the C programming language and develop several programs to implement these algorithms.
We will learn several data types, their structure and representation in memory, and ways to manage the memory in a program.
Material:
Introduction, Algorithms and Programs, Types, Operators, I/O, Control Flow Instructions, Loop Instructions, Functions, Functions and Variables, Arrays, Strings, Multidimensional Arrays, Pointers, Dynamic Memory Management, File Management, Recursion, Sorting and Searching, Structure Types, Recursive Structures, Simply Linked Lists, Doubly Linked Lists, Other Properties of C, Other Programming Techniques.
The courses of the Computer Science Department are designated with the letters "CS" followed by three decimal digits. The first digit denotes the year of study during which students are expected to enroll in the course; the second digit denotes the area of computer science to which the course belongs.
First Digit
Advised Year of Enrollment
1,2,3,4
First, Second, Third and Fourth year
5,6
Graduate courses
7,8,9
Specialized topics
Second Digit
Computer Science Area
0
Introductory - General
1
Background (Mathematics, Physics)
2
Hardware Systems
3
Networks and Telecommunication
4,5
Software Systems
6
Information Systems
7
Computer Vision and Robotics
8
Algorithms and Theory of Computation
9
Special Projects
The following pages contain tables (one for each course category) summarizing courses offered by the undergraduate studies program of the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete. Courses with code-names beginning with "MATH" or "PHYS" are taught by the Mathematics Department and Physics Department respectively at the University of Crete.