Programming Fundamentals

Catalog description

An introduction to concepts, principles and skills of programming. Upon completion of this course students will: 1) understand the evolution of computer languages (from machine code to object-oriented); 2) understand the concept of the coding process and code manipulation; 3) analyze real world problems and design algorithmic and programming solutions; 4) understand the general ideas of classes and objects as elements of a programming environment; 5) know general ideas about conditional expressions, functions and control structures; 6) prepare, execute and debug program code within an interactive programming environment; 7) demonstrate a consistent and readable programming style.