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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. |  
 
 Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External |  | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y |   |   |  | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y |   |   |  | 2004 | Miri Sarawak Campus | Semester 1 | Y |   |   |  | 2004 | Miri Sarawak Campus | Semester 2 | Y |   |   |   
 
Area External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |  
Central External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |  
 
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