COSC 1415

SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE

  

Prerequisites:

Successful completion of COSC 1309 (or consent of advisor) and MATH 1314.

                                    

Purpose of Course:          

This course is the first course in procedural programming and software engineering for computer science majors and engineering majors.  It covers the language used in C++.  Emphasis is on the fundamentals of structured design, development, testing, implementation, and documentation.

           

Textbooks:       

Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures to Objects, 5th Edition, by Tony Gaddis.

Lab Manual, by Defino & Bardzell.

  

Attendance:            

Attendance and effort are the most important activities for success in this course.  Records of your attendance will be maintained.  Whenever absences become excessive and, in the instructor’s opinion, minimum course objectives cannot be met, the instructor may administratively withdraw you from the course with a grade of X or F.  Refer to the General Catalog under Class Attendance and Drops & Withdrawals.