Prerequisites by Topic

• College Algebra
• Familiarity with basic computer usage, including a working knowledge of basic operating system functions in a Windows and/or UNIX operating system environment.

Knowledge and Skills Acquired

• Mastery of:
• manipulation of local and global state, including one-dimensional arrays of primitive and reference data types
• sequential, conditional, and iterative control structures
• program architecture and assembly from multiple components by means of composition, message passing, and class reuse (from available libraries)
• graphical-user interface construction and event handling using javax.swing
• using an Integrated Development Environment to perform basic programming and debugging tasks
• Familiarity with:
• creating class diagrams to model program requirements
• improving program reliability and robustness through exception handling techniques
• developing extendable and modifiable code through inheritance and polymorphism
• basic file input and output operations for obtaining and saving program data