CITA 240 - Introduction to Programming II

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory (or Other) Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): CITA 140
Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

This course is a study of intermediate concepts and problem-solving techniques in an object-oriented programming language. Emphasis is on learning the skills necessary to the development of object- oriented programs. The course covers topics such as inheritance, polymorphism, windows programming, exception handling, multithreading and animation. Students will develop, test and debug programs biased to appropriate and specific object-oriented techniques.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Learn a programming language: its syntax, idioms, patterns, and styles.
Become comfortable with object oriented programming: Learn to think in objects
Learn the essentials of a programming library, and how to integrate other parts of the library when you need them.
Introduce event driven Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming