PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS III (COSC 2436)

Term: 2017-2018 Spring

Faculty

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Dr Terry Paul Province

North Central Texas College

1500 North Corinth Street

Corinth, Texas 76208

 

Teaching Experience:

20 years full time instructor at NCTC

Now adjunct COSC instructor

 

Education:

Doctorate from UNT Denton2009

MBA from Regis University, Colorado Springs, Colo. 2003

BSEET, DeVry Institute of Technology, Dallas 1988

Description

Further applications of programming techniques, introducing the fundamental concepts of data structures and algorithms. Topics include data structures (including stacks, queues, linked lists, hash tables, trees, and graphs), searching, sorting, recursion, and algorithmic analysis. Programs will be implemented in an appropriate object oriented language. (This course is included in the Field of Study Curriculum for Computer Science.).
48 lecture hours + 32 laboratory hours.

At the conclusion of the course a student will be able to: Design and develop programs that implement basic data structures, including stacks, queues, linked lists, hash tables, trees, and graphs; apply recursive techniques and algorithms to solve problems; implement searching and sorting algorithms; understand algorithm efficiency, Big-O notation, and why it should be considered in programming; analyze and select appropriate data structures to implement a solution to a problem; design and implement data structur