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CISP 480: Honors Introduction to Structured Programming
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| Units: |
5.00 |
| Prerequisite: |
Placement into ENGWR
480 through the assessment process. |
| Advisory: |
CISC 310 (Introduction
to Computer Information Science) |
| Hours: |
72 hours lecture, 54
hours laboratory |
| Description: |
This honors course
combines the content of both CISP 300 and CISP 360
and presents it in an accelerated fashion
emphasizing projects and collaborative work. It
introduces methods for solving typical computer
problems by assessing and analyzing computing
problems, performing algorithm design using a
top-down, divide and conquer approach, and continues
with implementation, documentation, testing, and
debugging. Topics include structured programming,
data representation, data types, variables,
constants, operators, and expression evaluation. It
also includes control structures, functions,
interactive and file input/output, standard
libraries, arrays, pointers, structures, classes,
and objects. Pseudocode and an object-oriented
programming language are used to create program
solutions. This course is not open to students who
have completed CISP 300 or CISP 360. |
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Section 3: Learning Outcomes and Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the
student will be able to:
- develop, implement, and evaluate expressions using
the operators prevalent in most programming languages
including arithmetic, comparison, and logical operators
- develop and implement basic algorithms using
sequence, selection, and repetition
- deduce pre- and post-conditions for control
structures and modules
- construct a trace table to emulate the execution of
a program that utilizes variables, various control
structures, data organizations, modules, and parameters
- differentiate roles involved in software
development, including developers, analysts, and test
engineers
- develop efficient algorithms for the solution of
problems using structured programming techniques
- implement suitable data structures to support a
given algorithm
- formulate and implement algorithms to solve complex
problems using a high-level language
- use the top-down, divide and conquer development
approach to implement modular, maintainable programs
- assess the efficiency of differing solutions to a
problem
- analyze an existing algorithm implementation for
errors, then develop solution program code to correct
the errors
- utilize standard libraries for common tasks such as
file input/output and mathematical operations
- design and use classes and objects
- compare procedural and object-oriented approaches to
problem solving
- apply the software development life-cycle for
program design, development, coding style,
documentation, and testing
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Certificates requiring this course:
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