Course Outline:

Data Types and Expresions Console input and output Simple data types Integer, float and character literals Declaring variables and constants Arithmetic operators and expressions Precedence and associativity Control Flow Constructs Selection constructs - if, else, elsif, case Iteration constructs - loop, for, while, exit Nested constructs and indentation Boolean types, operators and expressions The relational operators Algorithm design Subprograms Subprogram structure, scope and visibility In, out and in out parameters Concept of data flow Functions and the return mechanism Default parameters Subprogram and operator overloading Compilation units and the library Type Declarations Discrete types versus real types Type conversion. subtypes and subranges Enumerated types Attributes succ, pred, pos and val Type Character Exceptions Handling pre-defined exceptions Raising program-defined exceptions Exceptions and the run-time stack Handling exceptions within a local block File Handling Reading and writing text files The Text_IO package

Composite Types Anonymous arrays Declaring an array type Array initialisation - aggregates and slices Type String Array operations Multidimensional arrays Records Complex structures of arrays and records Packages Package structure, spec and body Scope considerations Private and limited private types Abstract data type in general Generics Generic subprograms and packages Generic instantiation Type parameters Subprogram parameters Access Types Dynamic memory allocation and the heap Creating linked structures Single linked list Binary tree and recursion Tasking Parallelism and scheduling Task declarations Synchronising tasks Rendezvous – entry and accept Select and conditional accept