CSC& 142: Intermediate Programming

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Class Program

Computer Science

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

092467

Meets Degree Requirements For

Natural Science

Description

Introduces the concepts of object-oriented programming to students with a background in the procedural paradigm. Topics include project management, classes, APIs, instantiation of objects, references, lists, file I/O of records, inheritance, composition, polymorphism, interfaces, exception handling, computer graphics, and basic GUI programming. Intermediate JAVA.

Grading Basis

Graded

Prerequisites

CSC 201 or CSC& 141

Course Learning Outcomes

Overload functions to provide flexible function calling.

Define class specifications for instantiating objects.

Create reusable software components.

Explore an API, and implement API classes in a program.

Create, sort, search, and update lists of objects.

Read and write records from file I/O.

Use inheritance to extend the abilities of existing classes.

Implement polymorphism to apply consistency among similar classes and operations.

Draw graphic primitives on a raster device from within a program.

Handle basic events such as user events or system exceptions.

Construct a program employing a basic GUI.

Core Topics

Function overloading, recursion
Class specification
Object instantiation and reference
Lists such as linked lists, vectors, queues, and stacks
Reading and writing file I/O records
Composition, inheritance, abstract classes, polymorphism, interfaces
Graphics and GUI development using an API
Handling events and exceptions