Goals:

The goals of the course are to:

• Extend programming skills to handle the design, coding and testing of programs written in a block-structured high-level.
• Emphasize the use of data abstrctions, including the introduction of new data types such as linked lists, stacks, queues, and trees.
• Provide an understanding of the different implementations of these data structures.
• Introduce the design and analysis of algorithms including the Big-Oh notation.
• Introduce debugging aids to assist in producing correct programs.
• Show how you can better utilize the Unix environment when writing programs.
• Provide a foundation on which to build modern software engineering principles in later courses.