Version 1: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: understand the basic components of a computer system; be familiar with terms being used in computer world today; be knowledgeable in the Windows Operating System; and demonstrate proficiency in the most common Microsoft Office applications. Version 2: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to identify specifications and configurations of computer hardware, demonstrate the understanding and use of the components of a computer system, use terminology of current computer language correctly, use the Windows operating system easily and effectively, be proficient in the most common Microsoft 2019 applications, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint, produce professional looking documents and presentations, create spreadsheets and charts using Microsoft Excel, utilize and customize a database using Microsoft Access and utilize the Internet and its capabilities to create personal webpages using HTML. 

Version 1 and 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: handle programming problems with an object-oriented approach and use object-oriented techniques to solve programming problems. This course teaches these concepts using C++.  Specifically: demonstrate the ability to use object properly in a program; demonstrate the ability to differentiate between composition and Inheritance according to the principles of OOP; acquire the programming skills needed to write a program using a class  inheritance hierarchy; demonstrate the ability to write programs that use polymorphism, and be able to identify polymorphism in code examples; demonstrate the ability to apply the OOP principle of abstraction within a C++ program; demonstrate the ability to apply the OOP principle of behavioral abstraction within a C++ program; demonstrate the ability to write programs using GUI components, and define event handlers for the components; demonstrate the ability to use delegates as necessary in an event handling context; demonstrate the ability to write programs using advanced GUI components; demonstrate the ability to write programs that create and access files; demonstrate the ability to write programs using generic methods and classes; and demonstrate the ability to write a program using asynchronous programming techniques.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: explain what data structures are and why they are important; implement and operate upon arrays, ordered arrays, linked lists of various types, stacks, queues, deques, binary trees and binary search trees; analyze time complexity of data structures and their operations (insertion, deletion, searching, etc.); identify which data structures and algorithms are more suited to particular tasks and scenarios; identify and appreciate efficiency in programming; explain and utilize pointers; identify practical applications of data structures; understand the beauty of recursion; trace through recursive algorithms with a clear understanding of how they work and what’s being done at each step in the code; utilize recursion in one’s own programming; differentiate between different types of trees; identify different parts of a tree as well as a tree’s size, height and the depth of a given node; implement binary trees with multiple underlying data structures.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to analyze a problem, write an algorithm for it and code the solution in Visual Basic; debug and thoroughly test the program; and demonstrate proficiency in concepts of information technology and computer systems including hardware and software fundamentals, productivity software, digital media, database applications, networking, the Internet, and security and privacy issues. Specifically: be able to write a program in Visual Basic using Visual Studio; be able to use and code basic Windows controls in Visual Basic; be able to compare expressions in Visual Basic; be able to use the selector control in writing a program in Visual Basic; use a simple loop in writing a program; use a counter controlled loop in writing a program; be able to write nested loops in Visual Basic; demonstrate the ability to write an algorithm, analyze a problem, and implement the solution using principles of good programming; demonstrate the use of a collection of data using arrays; demonstrate comprehension of hardware fundamentals; show understanding of how the Internet works; demonstrate knowledge of the components of a computer; identify the general categories of programs, and describe how the operating system interacts with applications; be able to define and describe the various security risks and privacy issues that are involved in using computers; describe how programs run applications instructions and differentiate between the various types of memory; be able to describe an operating system and describe features of the more prevalent ones; and be able to discuss the purpose of components required for successful communications.