It presents an overview of computer hardware and software and use of an operating system and an editor as tools for the computer user. The student will also become familiar with the use of a word processor for report and proposal writing, spreadsheets for budgeting, and database design and access. Students will learn SPSS as a research tool for statistical applications. The course provides continued development in program design, in style and expression, and in debugging and testing. Data structures and algorithms associated with files, arrays, lists, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs are studied.
Recursion is introduced.
Algorithms for sorting and searching data structures are developed. Problems of current interest will be discussed. Available hardware will be used in the lab for this course. This is a second course in a structured business programming language. It emphasizes structured design, file organization, editing, data input techniques, indexed and keyed files, file updating, merging and sorting, debugging techniques, and program maintenance.