NCSSM COURSE CAtAlOG - North Carolina School of Science and ...
NCSSM COURSE CAtAlOG - North Carolina School of Science and ...
NCSSM COURSE CAtAlOG - North Carolina School of Science and ...
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This class covers the ‘A’ curriculum <strong>of</strong> the AP Syllabus in Computer <strong>Science</strong>.<br />
Students build on the skills acquired in CS400 or CS402 <strong>and</strong> learn how to write<br />
object-oriented programs in Java. Students learn how to design <strong>and</strong> implement<br />
Java classes. Several programming projects <strong>of</strong> increasing complexity are<br />
assigned to build the students’ skills in this area.<br />
CS406 Advanced Programming<br />
One trimester<br />
Credit: One unit core elective credit.<br />
Prerequisite: CS404 AP Computer <strong>Science</strong> A (II) or permission <strong>of</strong> the Academic<br />
Programs Office.<br />
Meeting pattern: Four periods per week including lab.<br />
This course covers inheritance, data structures, <strong>and</strong> implementing algorithms<br />
within these structures. Structures to be covered include lists, stacks, queues,<br />
heaps, <strong>and</strong> sets. Within these structures, students learn how to implement<br />
searching <strong>and</strong> sorting algorithms. Other topics include O-notation, the analysis<br />
<strong>of</strong> algorithms, <strong>and</strong> recursion.<br />
CS408 Elements <strong>of</strong> Computer Systems<br />
One trimester<br />
Credit: One unit core elective credit.<br />
Prerequisite: CS400 AP Computer <strong>Science</strong> A (I): Using the WWW or CS402 AP<br />
Computer <strong>Science</strong> A (I) or permission <strong>of</strong> the Academic Programs Office.<br />
Meeting pattern: Four periods per week including lab.<br />
This course, designed for students with solid computing skills in a Turing-complete<br />
language such as Python, Java, or C/C+, answers the question “When I write a<br />
program <strong>and</strong> run it, what chain <strong>of</strong> events causes it to execute?”. We begin at<br />
the level <strong>of</strong> logic gates <strong>and</strong> progress to a simplified high-level language. The<br />
student gains insight into the workings <strong>of</strong> the arithmetic logic unit, the central<br />
processing unit, <strong>and</strong> their interactions with memory. The student also sees how<br />
the compiler works, how it translates the code into assembly language <strong>and</strong> how<br />
the assembly language ultimately interacts with the computer’s architecture.<br />
The insights gained in this course help the student become a better programmer<br />
by having a better underst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>of</strong> what is happening underneath a high-level<br />
language.<br />
CS410 Data Structures<br />
One trimester<br />
Credit: One unit core elective credit.<br />
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