Programming Environment
UndergraduateLTU-CSE1PE2025
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025,
- 28 July 2025,
- 17 Nov 2025
- Price from
- $1,164
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Programming Environment
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Analyse simple data processing problems to correctly identify the data and high-level processing involved.
- Apply the 3 basic programming constructs of sequence, selection, and iteration to design computational solutions.
- Use basic data structures such as lists and dictionaries to solve batch data processing problems.
- Implement executable code in the Python programming language to solve computational problems.
- Algorithms and Flowcharts
- Statements and Expressions
- Booleans and Conditional Execution
- Iteration
- Functions and Objects
- Strings and Files
- Using Data Structures
- Software Errors
- Using Modules
- Structuring and Documenting Code
- Algorithm Design Strategies
In this subject you are introduced to the steps involved in designing and creating a software solution to simple real-life problems. To enable students to design a program, the subject introduces the way to break down the problems into smaller parts and analyse them methodically by using simple techniques such as drawing flowcharts. You will be introduced to the Python programming language as a means of creating executable program code to implement working software solutions.
- Eight weekly coding exercises (equivalent to 150 words each) (10%)
- Programming assignment (equivalent to 1000 words) (40%)
- 2 hour final examination (equivalent to 2000 words) (50%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
Others
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed CSE4IP (Introduction to Programming), or CSE1PES (Programming for Engineers and Scientists) or CSE1PGX (Programming Environment) or CSE1CFX (Cloud Foundations) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Student feedback
15 student respondents between 26 May 2024 - 2 Mar 2025.
86%of students felt the study load was manageable
93%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Information Technology Open Degree Pathway
UndergraduateLAT-ICT-PTH
UndergraduateLAT-CYS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
UndergraduateLAT-AHS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DEG
Bachelor of Information Technology
UndergraduateLAT-TEC-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DIP
UndergraduateLAT-CRM-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DIP
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