CSC112

Fundamentals of Computer Science

Fall 2005

Professor: Dr. Jennifer Burg

Office: West Calloway 237

Phone: 758-4465

E-mail: burg@wfu.edu

Office Hours: M/W/F 12-1, or by appointment. I encourage you to stop by my office.

Web: http://www.cs.wfu.edu/~burg

Graduate teaching assistant: Ryan Barnard

Office: West Calloway 229

Phone: 758-4286

E-mail: barnrt5@wfu.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 12-1:30, Thursday 3-4:30

Textbook: Absolute C++ by Walter Savitch, published by Addison-Wesley

Grading:

• exams 40%
• class participation 10%

· regular attendance

· positive participation in and contribution to discussions

· homeworks (if there are any)

• programs 50%

Course Objectives

· To enhance the programming and problem-solving skills of students who already have some experience with high-level programming languages.

· To help students become proficient users of the UNIX operating system.

· To give students experience in designing, writing, debugging, and documenting more complex programs than they have written previously.

· To provide programming experience with strings and file I/O.

· To introduce the data structures of arrays and pointer-based structures like linked lists. 

· To give students an understanding of the basic concepts of structured and object-oriented programming.

Language Used: C++