CSC 111 – Computer Programming

Introduction to computers and programs. Programmer’s algorithm, byte code and
Java Virtual Machine. Java program’s structure, constants, variables and built-in data
types. The arithmetic, assignment, increment and decrement operators. Classes and
object definition, UML representation of a class, declaration of objects (Instance
variables), primitive types and reference types. Relational and logical operators,
Boolean expressions, conditional statements, loop statements. Object oriented
principles, encapsulation and information hiding, methods and the message passing
principles, setters, and getters. Methods in depth, passing parameters, constructors,
setters. Arrays, usefulness of arrays, declaration of arrays, access to array elements,
operations on arrays.