Course Description

CS220: Programming Principles

This course's goal is to provide students with programming principles and a good feel for the elements of style and the aesthetics of programming, which are necessary in controlling the intellectual complexity of large yet robust software systems. The covered topics include: induction and recursion, data abstraction and representation, values and applicative programming, objects and imperative programming, streams and demand-driven programming, modularity and hierarchy, exceptions and advanced control, and higher-order functions and continuations.