Course Goals

Fundamentally this class is about building confidence in a number of areas: communication, time management, and computational thinking. By the end of the term, students will

• adapt the Problem Solving Process learned in previous STARS workshops to computer science,
• learn about the Software Engineering Life cycle and time management techniques for software development, 
• use these techniques to begin to develop a web based portfolio
• learn how to give a technical talk and run a technical discussion,
• be exposed to some introductory course material shown in 142/143,
• gain experience with the tools used in 142/143 (particularly debugging!), and
• practice study and test taking skills necessary for success in 142/143.

Modules

0. Pre-CSE Pre-work (Summer Homework)
1. Problem Solving Process and Reflection
2. Teach the Class
3. PSP and Software Engineering for Web Development
4. Introduction to Java and JGrasp
5. Variables and Expressions
6. Decomposition
7. Conditionals, Loops, And Graphics
8. Parameters and Returns
9. Debugging
10. Final Project