ITEC 120
PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTER SCIENCE I
- Catalog Entry
ITEC 120. Principles of Computer Science I
Three hours lecture; two hours laboratory (4).
Pre-requisites: none
A rigorous, systematic approach to object oriented problem solving and programming. General Education credit – Mathematical Sciences. Students who have received credit for CPSC 120 may not receive credit for ITEC 120.
- Detailed Description of Content of Course
Topics covered:
Programming Fundamentals
- Java: assignment, expressions, conditionals, loops
- Keyboard I/O
- File I/O (records)
- Arrays of primitive types
- Arrays of objects
- Applications
- Class libraries
- Methods
- Overloading
Objects and Classes
- Fields and Methods
- Instance v.s. Class Members
- Inheritance (*)
- Encapsulation
- Visibility modifiers
- New
- Reference types
- Primitive types
Language Topics
- Type conversion
- String manipulation
- Java Virtual Machine
- Java Applets and simple graphics
Software Engineering
- Problem solving
- Software Analysis and Design
- Testing and debugging
- Documentation and program structure
- UML
- Abstraction and Data Structures
Algorithms
- searching
- simple sort
Graphical User Interface
Recursion
Recurring Themes
- Ethics
- Analysis of Algorithms (sort)
These topics are consistent with the curriculum for CS1 as recommended by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Detailed Description of Conduct of Course.
Class lecture and discussion sessions present and explain problem solving techniques and standard algorithms, illustrated by examples. In the laboratory students learn, with faculty guidance, to solve programming problems and to actually implement their solutions on the computer. Students are also required to solve, code, test and debug several problems without direct faculty guidance.
- Goals and Objectives of the Course:
To provide students with a basic understanding of computer systems, working knowledge of a higher level programming language and the problem solving skills that they will need to prepare them for further studies in information technology.
- Assessment Measures
Student achievement is measured by written tests and evaluation of programming assignments.
- Other Course Information
None.
- Review and Approval
DATE ACTION APPROVAL
February, 2003 Updated John P. Helm, Chair |