Introduction to Program Design and Concepts

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Credits 4. 3 Lecture Hours. 2 Lab Hours. Computation to enhance problem solving abilities; computational thinking; understanding how people communicate with computers, how computing affects society; design and implementation of algorithms; data types, program control, iteration, functions, classes, and exceptions; understanding abstraction, modularity, code reuse, debugging, maintenance, and other aspects of software development; development and execution of programs. Prerequisite: Programming course (high school or college); also taught at Galveston campus.