CSC 171
C++ Programming for Engineers

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Prerequisite

Recommended MAT 250, CSC 170 or concurrent enrollment in CSC 170, or instructor's consent.

Course Description

Course introduces C++ programming language. Content focus is on solving numerically intensive applications present in scientific and engineering fields. Numerical algorithms implemented using object-oriented programming tools and elementary data structures. Credit cannot be received in both CSC 171 and CSC 172.

Course Objectives

A. Compose, edit, compile and execute programs written in the C++ programming language.
B. Apply the tools of problem analysis and algorithmic development to problems from the natural sciences and engineering.
C. Design programs using the essential programming tools: modularity, selection and repetition.
D. Implement programming solutions using data structures such as files and arrays.
E. Design class objects demonstrating the proper use of encapsulation and data abstraction
F. Survey elementary numerical algorithms.