Prof. M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP
IS 130B Intro. To Computing -- Syllabus
Textbooks:	Savitch, W. (2001).  Problem Solving with C++:  The Object of Programming, 3rd edition.  Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA).  ISBN 0-201-70390-4.
	Savitch, W. (2001).  Visual C++ 6.0:  Companion to Problem Solving with C++:  The Object of Programming, 3rd edition.  Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA).  ISBN 0-201-72999-7.
	Deitel, H. M. & P. J. Deitel (2001).  C++: How to Program, 3rd edition.  Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ).  ISBN 0-13-089571-7.
Week	Day	Date	Topics	Readings in Savitch	Additional Topics & Readings	Demonstration	Base Assignments due next lab	Extra assignments due at lecture following next lab
				§
1	T	2001-08-28	Intro to computer systems
	R	2001-08-30	Programming & problem solving; intro to C++, testing, debugging; Windows operating system, Visual Integrated Development Environment (IDE)	Chapter 1	Companion pp. 1-19	P. 28, P. 21	Read Ch 1text, 1-19 Companion to explore devt environment -- in lab; then start Savitch Programming Projects 1-1 through 1-4 and 1-5 on p. 36 ff.
2	T	2001-09-04	Variables & assignments	2.1	Sources of information about IT; Search Engines; NewsScan, Edupage, NYTimes, Wired, INNOVATION
	R	2001-09-06	Input/Output	2.2	Development methodologies, production, quality assurance
3	T	2001-09-11	Data types & expressions	2.3	Data center management, resource allocation, optimization
	R	2001-09-13	Flow of control:  branching, looping	2.4	Data integrity, backups
4	T	2001-09-18	Program style	2.5	Information security
	R	2001-09-20	Windows operating system, Visual Integrated Development Environment (IDE)		Malicious software
5	T	2001-09-25	C++ UDE Debugger		Legal and ethical issues in computing
	R	2001-09-27	Top-down design	3.1	Companion pp. 19-38
6	T	2001-10-02	Predefined & programmer-designed functions	3.2, 3.3	Prototyping, JAD, RAD
	R	2001-10-04	Procedural abstraction	3.4	Data communications
7	T	2001-10-09	Local variables	3.5	The Internet & the WWW
	R	2001-10-11	Overloading function names	3.6	E-mail & Netiquette
8	T	2001-10-16	Void function	4.1	P2P and Wireless technologies
	R	2001-10-18	Call-by-reference parameters	4.2	Groupware, Executive Information Systems
9	T	2001-10-23	Procedural abstraction:  pre- and post-condition comments; Testing and debugging functions	4.3, 4.4	Manufacturing
	R	2001-10-25	I/O streams and files; tools	5.1, 5.2	Transportation
10	T	2001-10-30	Character I/O	5.3	Medical informatics
	R	2001-11-01	Inheritance	5.4	Privacy
11	T	2001-11-06	Boolean expressions, multiway branches	7.1, 7.2	Image processing
	R	2001-11-08	More on iteration; designing loops	7.3, 7.4	AI
12	T	2001-11-13	Introduction to arrays	9.1	Robotics
	R	2001-11-15	Arrays in functions	9.2
13	T	2001-11-27	Programming with arrays	9.3
	R	2001-11-29	String basics & multidimensional arrays	10.1, 10.2
14	T	2001-12-06	Discussions