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Temple University - Program Design and Abstraction

Country: USA
University: Temple University
Course code: CIS1068
Course title: Program Design and Abstraction
Date of Syllabus:
Source: Manual search
Associated Degrees: Computer Science
Prerequisits: no
Course for Majors: yes
Course stage:
Semester:
Programming language: Java
Language of Instruction: English
URL: https://cis.temple.edu/~giorgio/cis67/syllabus.html
Explicit or !Explicit LOs: Scraped
Learning Outcomes:

Problem solving and programming in Java

introduction to software engineering

procedural and data abstraction

elementary object-oriented programming

Programming techniques include at least one technique for searching and sorting an array and an introduction to file processing

At the end of the course students are expected to be able write good quality small (100..200 lines) programs that solve small interesting and relevant problems

Data types covered include primitive data types, strings, classes, arrays, array lists, and streams

LO categories:

Problem Solving (also things like computational thinking)

Basic OOP

Abstraction

Classes & objects

Arrays, Lists, dictionaries, vectors, sets

Strings

Variables, assignment, arithmetic expressions, declarations, data types

Searching algorithms

Sorting Algorithms

File handling & I/O