307540 (v.1) Engineering Computing 100
| Area: | Department of First Year Engineering Studies |
| Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Practical: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Introduction to the design of software and Java programming. Compiling and executing a Java program. Primitive data types. Numeric expressions - operators and operator precedence. Method argument passing, boolean expressions, program documentation. Introduction to control structures - if-then-else, multi-way selection - the switch statement. Looping control structures - while loop, do-while loop, for loop. Introduction to object oriented programming, message passing, inheritance, abstract classes. Implementation of object oriented programming in Java. Arrays as a concept and their implementation in Java. The vector class in Java. Simple searching and sorting algorithms. Introduction to measuring algorithm efficiency. |
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