Overview

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of CS2020, students will be able to:

• Formulate computational problems and express programming solutions clearly.
• Apply procedural reasoning to solve problems by developing programs.
• Initialize and use variables and assignment statements.
• Describe the importance of documentation, commenting, and adherence to a style.
• Use common data types and write valid expressions of given data types.
• Describe and map variables in computer memory.
• Write clean and efficient selection and repetition control structures.
• Construct programs using functional decomposition.
• Organize a program into its core parts with the use of functions.
• Iterate through problem solution, each iteration more detailed then the last.
• Describe how the arguments are passed to the functions and results returned.
• Describe the use and manipulation of strings.
• Develop a logical and thorough set of tests to check a program's correctness.
• Input data from and output data to files.
• Trace programs using a debugger and set breakpoints.
• Understand the concept of object-oriented programming.
• Use Python basic statistical methods and packages in practice.
• Import and use functions from external Python modules to extend their programs beyond the standard library.