Characteristics of programming languages. Principles of creating
programs in high and low level languages. General characteristics
of integrated programming environments supporting programming
and starting microprocessor-based systems. Program syntax in as-
sembler language and C language. Declaration of variables and
constants. Operations on arithmetic operators. Operations on logi-
cal operators. The use of pointers and variable arrays. Standard
input/output functions, input/output formatting. Operation of inter-
rupt systems. Operation of input/output circuits and serial inter-
faces. Operation of built-in peripherals of microprocessor systems:
counters, timers, real-time clock, A/D and D/A converters. Opera-
tion of external devices. General characteristics of visual high-level
languages. Introduction to integrated programming environments.
Basic data types. Characteristics of JAVA and NET runtime envi-
ronments. Internal instructions and functions of the language. Defi-
nition and calling of user functions. Methods of returning values
through a function argument. Basic features of object-oriented pro-
gramming: range of available arguments and methods, inheritance,
classes. Developing a graphic interface of an application. The use
of the interrupt system in an application. Operation of computer
hardware resources.
