Advanced Computer Science

Catalog description

This course is designed as an extension of CSC-140, providing greater in-depth experience in modular structured programming solutions to problems. Topics include record I/O; file processing; advanced array manipulations; searching and sorting algorithms; algorithm efficiency; recursion; OOP methodology; using and creating classes; interfaces; overloading; pointer data types; and an introduction to data structures: linked lists, staks, queues and trees. Good programming documentation and proper problem analysis is expected throughout the course. Fee is required. (4 contact hours)