Revised 4/2020
ITP 136 - C# Programming I (4 CR.)
Course Description
Presents instruction in fundamentals of object-oriented programming and design using C#. Course content emphasizes program construction, algorithm development, coding, debugging, and documentation of applications within the .NET Framework. Lecture 4 hours per week.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
None.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Acquire the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and design using C#
- Gain an understanding of concepts of object oriented language; encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism
- Learn the C# programming within the .NET framework
Major Topics to Be Included
- Introduction to Computers and Programming Languages.
- C# language fundamentals.
- Classes and Objects
- Inheritance and polymorphism
- Interfaces
- Arrays and collections
- Strings and regular expressions
- Handling Exceptions
Student Learning Outcomes
Introduction to Computers and Programming Languages- Learn the history of computers
- Understand the difference between low level and high level programming languages
- Understand difference between procedural languages and object- oriented language
- Understand the basics of computer hardware
- Understand types, variables and constants
- Understand statements and operators
- Be able to work with namespaces
- Understand how to define a class.
- Understand object-oriented concepts of classes
- Be able to create objects from the classes
- Understand method constructs.
- Understand how to pass parameters
- Understand the concept of data encapsulation
- Understand object-oriented inheritance
- Be able to describe what polymorphism is and the advantages of it in a language
- Understand the concept of abstract classes
- Be able to describe boxing and unboxing
- Be able to describe what an interface is and why it is used
- Understand how to implement an interface
- Understand array basics
- Learn to declare and use one dimensional array
- Understand the effect of using array elements as parameter to methods
- Understand the Collection interfaces
- Understand C# strings
- Understand how to manipulate strings
- Be able to describe what regular expressions are and how to use them
- Understand how to throw and catch exceptions
- Be able to describe why you would want to use exceptions
- Learn how to re-throw exceptions