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                                         Computer Science 1620
                          Introduction to a Programming Language
                                   Course Outline $\bullet$ Spring 2000
 
 
 

TuTh 3:05-4:20  Room:  P238 (A)
            C756 (B)

1a) Wed   09:00-09:50 Room: D519 2a)           10:00-10:50 3a)           14:00-14:50 1b) Th    09:50-10:40  2b)         10:50-11:40  3b)         12:40-1:30 

1a) Mon  10:00-10:50 Room: W400 2a)          14:00-14:50

1b) Tu  09:50-10:40 Room: E519 2b)       10:50-11:40 

A : S. Sadaoui-Mouhoub
B : M. Mouhoub Office: C516
Office: D520

M. Mouhoub:  Wed 10:00-12:00, 1:00-5:00 
S. Sadaoui-Mouhoub: MWF 4:00-5:00  or by appointment

T. Takeyasu Office: D412 An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming  with JAVA, by C. Thomas Wu

Lab assignments and quizzes 30%

Midterm Exam 30%

Final Exam 40%

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Topics(as time permits)

1. Overview of computing science:

computer hardware and software, programming languages, solving problems and algorithm design.

2. Object oriented programming basics:

program structure in an object oriented language: classes and objects, methods and messages, inheritance. Internal structure of methods: elementary data types, variables, constants, expressions, selection and repetition statements.

3. Applets and user interfaces:

applet versus application. GUI objects. Even-Driven Programming.

4. Strings and arrays:

characters, strings, primitive versus reference types. Arrays, two-dimensional arrays. Passing objects as parameters to methods.

5. Searching, sorting and recursive algorithms

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Note: No late assignment will be accepted unless preapproved by the instructor.