The course will have 2.5 hours of lecture and 50 minutes of lab per week.  If the students are unable to finish the labs within the allotted time, they will need to use an ACC open lab to complete the work.

Course Rationale: 

This is an entry level programming course designed to teach students the basics of program design, coding and testing.  The purpose of the course is to create hierarchy charts, flow charts, pseudocode and create test tables in the whole process of program design.  A high level programming language is used to reinforce the concepts learned during design.

Course Objectives/ Learning Outcomes:  After the successful completion of this course, a student should be able to:

1.      Demonstrate problem solving skills by developing algorithms to solve problems incorporating the concept of data abstraction in a computer program.

2.      Design and a simple program using the specifications provided by creating structure charts, modules and pseudocode.

3.      Implement a simple program by writing the code, performing unit testing and debugging the program.

4.      Incorporating the use of sequential, selection and repetition control structures into a program.

5.      Demonstrate an understanding of the design and implementation of functions and the passing of parameters to simplify the solution of large problems and to promote the concept of code reuse.

6.        Understand the basic principles and concepts of both object-oriented programming and pointers.

Now I will extract the topics from the schedule and reproduce them below.  I will also rearrange them to match the order of the topics in the lab manual.

The following table contains a cross reference among the topics covered in this series of tutorial lessons, the lessons in the lab manual for the course, and the topics specified for the course in the ACC Master Syllabus for COSC 1315. 

In some cases the topics were paraphrased relative to the Master Syllabus and were separated into more easily identifiable units.  Then they were rearranged to put them in the order that they appear in the lab manual.

Notes:

1. Professor Baldwin has no idea what was intended by the terminology Parameter Passing: Import and Parameter Passing: Export in the Master Syllabus.  There doesn't appear to be anything in the textbook or in the lab manual on these topics.  Therefore, there are no tutorial lessons in this series that claim to cover these topics.  However, it is very likely that they are covered by the tutorials under more commonly-used terminology.
2. Aside from the fact that the program development environment used in this course uses a GUI, there are no tutorial lessons in this series that claim to cover this topic.  In fact, the C++ curriculum at ACC doesn't cover this topic until the Advanced C++ course.  There is also no instructional material in the lab manual regarding GUIs.  However, there is some general information about GUIs in the textbook for the course.

According to a message that I received from Bill Tucker on 2/10/06,

"The master syllabus for COSC 1315 hasn’t been updated in a long time and as you pointed out it needs to be updated

 But the task force approved the attached list of topics for all C++ courses.  I go by the attached file when I teach the courses."

The following table shows the columns from Tucker's file that pertain to COSC 1315.