Introduction to Programming

Catalog description

This course introduces computational thinking and computer programming using a modern programming language. Students will be introduced to basic programming concepts and will learn fundamental programming constructs and structures including variables, data types, expressions, conditional/iterative control structures, functions and parameters, arrays/vectors, simple I/O and file I/O. Students will apply them in solving many small real application problems and develop critical skills in problem solving, testing and debugging, and gain an understanding of the role of computation. This course has an associated lab class required for students to take concurrently.