Courses

CS 127A: Program Design & Development

Objective	Introduce students to programming in C++ and ensure that they can produce well-designed programs (100-200 lines of code).
Pre-Conditions	None
Post-Conditions (Topics)	[1.5 weeks] functions, stream I/O, value parameters [CS127b] [1.5 weeks] primitive types (int, double, bool), operators (assignment, arithmetic, logical, relational), precedence of operators, if/else [CS127b] [1.5 weeks] for loops, scope/lifetime of variables, reference parameters [CS127b] [1.5 weeks] basic design issues: information hiding, specification vs implementation, avoiding redundancy, minimizing dependencies [CS127b] [CS342] [1.5 weeks] while loops, using simple predefined classes (member functions, constructors) [CS127b] [1.5 weeks] file and character processing, details of strings and streams [CS127b] [2 weeks] arrays and typical array operations: initialize, insert, delete, simple sorting and searching [CS127b] [2 weeks] structures, complex data structures (e.g., arrays of structs) [CS127b] [1 week] recursion [CS127b] [1 week] pointers and linked lists (no programming, problem on final exam) [CS127b]

Authored by Stuart Reges.

Last revised on 29 April 1997 by John Hartman.