Who Should Take This Course

This course is the second half of Adelphi's first-year programming sequence. It assumes you have taken the first half, CSC 171, or the equivalent. If you took the first course in a different semester, or at a different school, you'll have to catch up on the design recipes, while you may find some of the language concepts (like variable declaration and assignment) old-hat. The course will be of benefit to people who know another programming language like Scheme, Pascal, C, or Basic, and want to learn Java and/or object-oriented programming (OOP). I expect the class to include some computer science majors, some computer science minors, and some people here for just one or two courses.

If you want to learn how to use a computer (for word processing, spreadsheets, databases, Web browsing, email, etc.) and perhaps create your own Web page, but not write real computer programs yourself, you should probably take CSC 170, ``Introduction to Computers and Their Applications'', instead.