This course provides an introduction on business programming. It covers basic concepts of structured programming and programming languages, techniques of programme structure and algorithm design, the data/object types, the control structures, the functions and libraries, arrays and input/output and friendly user interface. One core issue of the course is to emphasize on the problem-solving skills and the structured programming techniques through some business examples, especially some finance examples. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to have sufficient knowledge and skills to define cost effective algorithms for both business and system applications.

CILO-1: Describe the concept of programming language. CILO-2: Illustrate conditional situations in business using selection statements. CILO-3: Illustrate repetitive situations in business using looping statements. CILO-4: Construct reusable functions in solving business problems. CILO-5: Construct arrays to store business data in order to solve business problems. CILO-6: Construct text files to store input and output data for business applications.