Programming Essentials

Host University

George Mason University

Semester

Fall 2024

Course Number

AIT 502 DL1

Credits

3

Discipline

Computer Engineering

Instructor

Butu, Emilia (ebutu@gmu.edu)

Times and Days

Asynchronous

Course Information

Introduces basic procedural and object-oriented programming. Topics include: variables, data types, assignments, conditionals, loops, arrays, input/output, static methods, libraries, recursion, data types, API, classes, access modifiers, instance variables, constructors, instance methods, testing, encapsulations, immutability, interface inheritance, implementation inheritance, exceptions, assertions, analysis of algorithms, order of growth, memory usage, binary search, insertion sort, merge sort, stacks, array implementation of stacks, linked list implementation of stacks, queues, generics, autoboxing, iteration, symbol tables, hash tables, binary search trees, examples and applications. Offered by Info Sciences & Technology. May not be repeated for credit.

Prerequisites

Basic information technology knowledge.