An introduction to the fundamental programming concepts in Java that will provide students a foundation in the fundamental programming concepts in Java that will provide students a foundation in the following fundamental programming constructs: (a) representation of numeric, character and string data, (b) arithmetic expressions, (c) basic statements, (d) logic expressions, (e) conditional and (f) iterative control. Programming laboratory experiences are included in this course.

A continuation of CSC 201 which covers the following fundamental programming constructs and data structures in Java: (1) functions/methods and parameter passing, (2) arrays, (3) I/O operations, and (4) basic classes and objects.