CSC 210: Software Development

The main goal of this course is to learn how to decompose problems and solve them with a program and do this in an effective manner that enables your future self and others to read, understand, and maintain your programs. Other goals include learning a second programming language (Java), learning decomposition and debugging strategies, and learning GUI event-driven programming (JavaFX).

Learning Objectives

* When provided a project specification, students will be able to decompose the solution into subproblems and iteratively develop the project using multiple interacting classes, class inheritance, hierarchical data structures, and/or event-driven programming.

* Given their own decomposition into subproblems, students will be able to use data structures provided in libraries (i.e., hash table, tree, and graph), common algorithm patterns (i.e., exhaustive search, divide and conquer, branch and bound, and heuristic), unit testing, and debugging to write a correct solution to each subproblem and integrate the subproblem solutions into a complete working project (currently using Java).</li>

* When provided example solution components and a rubric, students will be able to evaluate the decomposition, clarity, performance, and style of a program.

* Students will be able to compare and contrast programming in two programming languages (currently Python and Java).
Given usage examples and documentation, students will be able to provide graphical user input and output for programs (currently using JavaFX).