CSC 111: Computer Programming

Course Objectives:

The course aims at giving the students a broad foundation in the fundamental concepts of object oriented programming accompanied by specific labs to develop the basic skills in object oriented programming with Java. It introduces the basic concepts and principles of the Object Oriented approach such as: (1) Abstraction and Encapsulation principles, (2) Classes, objects and the constructor concepts, (3) Information hiding principle and the assessors concept, (4) methods, and (5) the message passing and the overloading principles.

Course Outcomes:

1. To understand the fundamental principles of object-oriented programming.
2. To be able to read and understand Java programs.
3. To apply fundamental object-oriented principles in writing programs using Java.
4. To be familiar with the Unified Modeling Language (UML).

The Textbook

• Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and programming, 7E, W. Savitch, Pearson International (Textbook)
• Java How to program Deitel and Deitel (Seventh edition) Pearson International (reference)
• Introduction to Java Programming, Comprehensive Version, 10E Y. Daniel Liang, Prentice Hall (reference)

Schedule plan

Week Number
1	Administrivia Introduction to computers and Java: computer basics, Java, programming basics
2	Variables, Data Types, Identifiers, Assignment Simple Input / Output
3	Constants, Type Casting, Arithmetic Operators, Operator precedence Case study: vending machine change
4	Increment and decrement, keyboard and screen I/O, documentation and Style Basic if-else statement, boolean expressions
5	Nested if-else statement, multibranch if statement Case Study, exit Method (conditional operator not included) Comparing strings, The type boolean
6	Switch statement (enumeration not included) The while statement do-while statement, programming example
7	For statement (for-each not included) Nested loop Programming with loops, loop bugs, tracing variables (break and continue, assertion not included)
8	Classes: Instance variable, UML Programming Example Methods, void Method, Method that return a value
9	The keyword this, Local variables, blocks Parameters of a primitive type Information hiding, public and private modifiers
10	Accessor(getters) and mutator methods(setters), Encapsulation, UML class diagram Methods calling methods
11	Variable of class type (references) Defining and equals method for a class, Parameters of class type Constructors
12	Static variables and methods Overloading Array basics
13	Array basics programming example Arrays in classes and methods Array of objects
14	Operations on array of objects (add, search, delete)
15	Revision