Objectives

The primary objective of this course is to equip students with fundamental programming skills and provide a general understanding of computer operations from the programmer’s perspective. The emphasis is on problem analysis and algorithm development.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to design relatively simple business and scientific application programs, using structured programming techniques, implemented in C.

Dates to Bear in Mind:

Start of Semester: August 26, 2007
Start of Teaching: September 03, 2007
End of Teaching: November 30, 2007
Start of Exams: December 05, 2007
End of Exams: December 21, 2007
End of Semester: December 21, 2007

Course Outline

TEXT BOOKS

      Required:
      "C How to Program", H.M. Deitel & P.J. Deitel, 4^th Edition, Prentice Hall.

      Highly Recommended:
      "Simple Program Design", Lesley Anne Robertson, 4^th Edition, Thomson Publishing.

Assignment Policy:

All assignments will be due by 4 p.m. on the given submission date. At NO time and under NO circumstances will late submissions be accepted.

Areas of Testing	Percent of Grade

Final Paper	60
Coursework	40