CS 003A - FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE II (C++)

Recent Professors: Dave Smith, Sassan Barkeshli, Juan Leon, Zareh Gorjian, Ji Lee
Recent Semesters: Fall 2026, Summer 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025
Class Size: 30 students
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: CS 002
Fall 2026 Sections: View Fall 2026 sections of CS 003A
Transfers To: CSU
Description: Second programming course in the series of Fundamentals of Computer Science courses. Continuation of the C++ language including: classes, structures and unions, overloaded operators and friend functions, pointers and dynamic arrays, function pointers, functors, abstract data types and container objects polymorphisms, inheritance and multiple inheritance, templates and the Standard Template Library, exception handling, namespaces and separate compilation, recursion, creation of libraries, advanced software design, testing, and debugging techniques. For STEM Majors: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, and Science majors, but open to all qualified students. Total of 54 hours lecture. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
Usually Held: Mon Wed 1:00pm–2:25pm, Tue Thu 1:00pm–2:25pm, Tue Thu 10:30am–11:55am, Tue Thu 10:15am–11:40am