Information Technology 118

ITEC 118: Principles of Programming I

Credit Hours:  (3)

Instructional Method:  Two hours lecture; two hours laboratory

Pre- or Corequisites:  MATH 125, 138, 168, 169 or 171

Note(s): R (Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning) Area

A rigorous, systematic approach to object-oriented problem solving and programming.

Detailed Description of Content of Course

Topics include:

1.      Fundamental constructs (primitive types, variables, I/O, conditionals, loops, methods)

2.      Processing strings and arrays of primitive types

3.      Testing and debugging

4.      Terminal input and output

Detailed Description of Conduct of Course

Class lecture and discussion sessions present and explain problem solving techniques and standard algorithms, illustrated with examples.  In the laboratory students learn, with faculty guidance, to solve programming problems and to implement their solutions.  Students are also required to solve, code, test and debug problems without direct faculty guidance.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the course will be able to

1. Design, implement, test, and debug a program in an object-oriented language that uses each of the following fundamental programming constructs: basic computation, simple I/O, standard conditional and iterative structures, and methods.

2. Apply the techniques of structured (functional) decomposition to break a program into smaller pieces, and describe the mechanics of passing parameters by value.

3. Choose the appropriate data types (primitive types, strings, objects, and arrays) for modeling a given problem

4. Write methods with parameters and return types that are primitive types, strings, objects, and arrays.

5. Test and debug programs by: Developing test cases and writing a separate driver class to test the methods of a class; desk-checking individual methods; inserting relevant print statements to discover program behavior.

6. Answer basic questions about professional and ethical considerations of developing software, information privacy, and acceptable use policies for computing in the workplace.

Assessment Measures

Student achievement is measured by written tests and evaluation of homework and programming assignments.

Reviewed and approved: June, 2022