300

Continue to build a computer science foundation. Study of intermediate programming language constructs: event handling, graphical user interfaces, threads, and networking. Introduction to the software engineering process and programming-in-the-large.

Continues the study of computer science and software engineering methodologies. Analysis of common data structures, time and space efficiency, stacks, queues, linked lists, basic trees, recursion, searching, and sorting algorithms. Study of program language features required to support dynamic memory arrays.

Advanced data structures, including advanced trees, graphs, hash tables, heaps. Study of the program language features required to support templates, inheritance, and exception handling.

Comparative analysis of several modern high level languages in terms of data types and control structures, with emphasis on run-time behavior of programs.

Weekly three-hour laboratory to support CS 301.

Weekly 3-hour laboratory to support CS 303. Use of software tools and data structures to support software development (UNIX operating system).

Weekly 3-hour laboratory. Assembly language and systems programming.

The course focuses on developing and practicing techniques for rapid programming in a small team environment: approaches to problem assessment, selection of data structures and algorithms, implementation, and testing. Students will hone their skills by working in small teams to produce correct solutions to a wide variety of computing problems under time constraints.