Programming and Data Structures

This course provides a first exposure to algorithms and fundamental data structures. Working "hands-on" with an integrated development environment, students learn to write and modify code in a widely used contemporary programming language, and discover how their acquired programming skills contribute to the plans, designs, implementations, tests, and maintenance of software solutions. Emphasis is placed on language syntax and structure, data types, arrays, Boolean logic, and functions. The course progresses to topics such as indirection, list and tree structures, object-oriented programming, application programming interfaces, and simple user interfaces.