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Assignments |
10%-20% |
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Quizzes |
10%-30% |
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Midterm Examination |
20%-30% |
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Final Examination |
25%-40% |
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Total |
100% |
**In order to pass the course, students must, in addition to receiving an overall course grade of 50%, also achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined weighted examination components (including quizzes, tests, exams).
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
At the end of this course the successful student will be able to:
Identify the purpose and behavior of a provided code fragment.
Modify an existing code fragment to change its behavior.
Modify conditional and iterative structures in a short program.
Write well-structured, well- documented, well-commented readable code.
Design, implement, test, and debug a program that uses each of the following fundamental programming constructs: basic computation, simple I/O, basic conditional and iterative structures, and functions.
Describe the syntax and semantics of conditional structures.
Use conditional structures.
Apply the techniques of decomposition to break a program into smaller pieces.
Describe the role of formal and actual parameters of a function.
Describe how strings and arrays are allocated, manipulated and used.
Compare iterative and recursive solutions for elementary problems such as factorial.
Formulate loop invariants for simple loops.
Demonstrate loop termination.
Implement, test, and debug simple recursive methods.
Explain the philosophy of object- oriented design and the concepts of encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance, interface and polymorphism.
Describe how the class mechanism supports encapsulation and information hiding.
Compare and contrast the notions of overloading and overriding.
Identify the scope of the variables involved in a given code.
Access and program databases using various classes.
Design GUI programs.
Courses listed here must be completed prior to this course:
Courses listed here must be completed either prior to or simultaneously with this course:
Courses listed here are equivalent to this course and cannot be taken for further credit:
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
| Institution | Transfer Details | Effective Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander College (ALEX) | ALEX CPSC 2XX (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| College of New Caledonia (CNC) | CNC CSC 110 (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| College of the Rockies (COTR) | COTR COMP 1XX (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | KPU INFO 2313 (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | SFU CMPT 1XX (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU COMP 2XXX (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| University Canada West (UCW) | UCW CMPT 2XX (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | UBCO COSC 2nd (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | DOUG CSIS 1175 (3) & DOUG CSIS 2175 (3) = UBCV CPSC 1st (3) & UBCV CPSC 2nd (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | UBCV CPSC 2nd (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| University of Northern BC (UNBC) | UNBC CPSC 2XX (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | UFV COMP 2XX (3) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC CSC 2XX (1.5) | 2019/05/01 to - |
| Vancouver Island University (VIU) | VIU CSCI 160 (4) | 2019/05/01 to - |