Academic Certificate in Computer Science

The Academic Certificate is designed to offer a basic grounding in computer programming, starting with the concept of algorithms using flowcharts and Python programming language. It supplies algorithm analysis methods, also for recursive algorithms. Fundamental data structures will be described along with a subset of fundamental algorithms used with these structures. The courses also involve practical lab work.

 

Course activity: June-September 2023

Code

Description

SSD

CFU

Hours

Semester

Location

MF0572

Fundamentals of algorithns and data structures

INF/01

6

48

Summer

Alessandria

MF0571

Fundamentals of programming

INF/01

6

48

Summer

Alessandria

 

Educational Goals

The student will be able to use top-down methods of problem analysis. Specifically, he/she will acquire the ability to: define input and output, create flowcharts, create Python language programmes. The student will acquire knowledge of fundamental data structures and the ability to use them to resolve simple problems, He/she will be able to analyse data algorithms, both recursive and iterative. He/she will learn how to describe search and sort algorithms, as well as apply a specific algorithm to a set problem.

 

Course assessment

Assessment of course success and achievement of goals is given in a grade (thirty marks) for each training activity of the course.
On request and subject to payment of a revenue stamp, a certificate of course success and acquisition of credits may be issued.
It is possible to take the exams until the special session of the academic year.

 

Enrolment

To participate in the course, applicants must hold a high school leaving certificate or other equivalent, recognised, qualification from abroad.
Applications must be presented between 2 May 2023 and 31 January 2024.

For any questions about enrolment, please contact prof. Alessio Bottrighi

 

Payment procedure

If you do not hold University login credentials, to create an account:

  • access: https://www.studenti.uniupo.it/Home.do
  •  follow the Reserved Area pathway to Registration, and click on “Web Registration”
  • key in your personal data as requested up to creation of your username which must also be linked to a password
  • enter the Reserved Area, click on “Proceed with login”.

Those who already have a username:

Proceed to registration and payment:

  • Click on “Student Admin”, follow pages: Enrolment, Standard Enrolment, Enrolment on open-access courses, Department of Science and Technological Innovation, First Level Ordinary Course; then select the Academic Certificate you are interested in
  • Enter the information requested, up to and including the generation and printing of the application for enrolment and bill for 90 Euro
  • If you do not figure among the categories eligible for exemption or reduced fee, pay the bill and contact the Student Admin Office of the Department of Science and Technological Innovation via UPO Risponde (https://www.uniupo.it/it/upo-risponde) selecting the Department “Dip. di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica - Alessandria”, the topic or recipient “Segreteria Studenti”, the context “Individual Courses”, and indicating in the request text the “Academic Certificate” and course subject desired
  • If you figure among one of the categories entitled to fee exemption or reduction, contact the DISIT Student Admin Office (details above) and they will update your enrolment details
  • IN ALL CASES (including exemption or reduced fee), the Admin Office will issue another bill for 16 euro (for the revenue stamp) which must be paid, and if necessary another bill if both courses are requested
  • Return to the initial webpage, select “Student Admin”, “Payments”, and when at the “Invoice” section, the bills to be paid will appear
  • The Student Admin Office will update your online records with the Academic Certificate courses

No reimbursement will be paid in the event that exams for credits are not passed.

Fees

Credits acquired

Full fee

Reduced fee

Up to 6

€ 90,00

€ 25,00

Up to 12

€ 180,00

€ 50,00

 

 

The reduced fee is applied to: University staff; individuals with disability of 66% or more; individuals with handicaps (art. 3 c. 1 l. 104/1992); asylum-seekers; refugees/political refugees; incoming free-mover students.

Exemption by merit

Those who have completed their degree “on time” (in the scheduled/normal duration of the programme) with a mark of 100/110 or more, is not subject to the enrolment fee.

Students currently graduating who expect to achieve the aforesaid condition may enrol provisionally, and their status will then be checked before they are confirmed as eligible for the exemption.

For those who continue their studies by enrolling on a Master’s course at the university, the price of the Academic Certificate programme will be subtracted from the fee for the first year of enrolment on the Master’s degree (where due).