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

Recent Professors: Sassan Barkeshli, Dave Smith, Juan Leon, Zareh Gorjian
Recent Semesters: Spring 2027, Fall 2026, Summer 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025
Class Size: 30 students
Difficulty: 8.2Heavyout of 10
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: CS 002
Spring 2027 Sections: View Spring 2027 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: Tue Thu 10:30am–11:55am, Mon Wed 1:00pm–2:25pm, Tue Thu 1:00pm–2:25pm, Tue Thu 8:30am–9:55am