Intro to Program Design I

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to systematic program design and computer programming. The course teaches students how to make plans, to organize their thoughts, to pay attention to detail, and to be self-critical. The focus of the course is the design process that leads students from a problem statement and a blank page to a well-organized solution using the development of a large software system such as a video game. Topics include primitive data processing, compound data of finite size processing, compound data of arbitrary size processing, type-driven design, the process of abstraction, and distributed programming. This course assumes no prior computer programming experience.