Learning Outcomes

This page presents course-level and module-level outcomes. Outcomes identify what students will know and be able to do if they master the material.

Articulated Student Learning Outcomes

• Use an appropriate programming environment to design, code, compile, run and debug computer programs.

• Demonstrate basic problem solving skills: analyzing problems, modeling a problem as a system of objects, creating algorithms, and implementing models and algorithms in an object-oriented computer language (classes, objects, methods with parameters, abstract classes, interfaces, inheritance and polymorphism).

• Illustrate basic programming concepts such as program flow and syntax of a high-level general purpose language.

• Demonstrate working with primitive data types, strings and arrays.

Course Specific Student Learning Outcomes

• Understand the goals, structures, and procedures for learning in ICS 111.

• Understand the fundamentals how a computer works.

• To learn how to take a problem, figure out the algorithm to solve it, the write the code.

• To learn basics of programming with a modern programming language, Java.

  • Variables

  • Expressions

  • Looping

  • Branching

  • Exceptions

  • Methods / Subroutines / Functions

  • Classes, Interfaces and Inheritance

  • Graphical User Interfaces

• Understand how to install and use a good Java development environment.

• To learn how to produce robust programs in Java using exception handling and extensive program testing.

BS Program Student Outcomes

• An ability to apply mathematical foundations, algorithmic principles, and computer science theory to the modeling and design of computer-based systems.

• An ability to define the computing requirements of a problem and to design appropriate solutions based on established design principles and with an understanding of the tradeoffs involved in design choices.

• An ability to use sound development principles to implement computer-based and software systems of varying complexity, and to evaluate such systems.

• An ability to use current techniques, skills, and tools necessary for computing practice.