Course Outcomes

Course Outcomes (student should be able to...)	Department Outcomes	Course Evaluations
Design, implement, test, debug, and document programs in C and C++	1	Exams 1 & 2; Programming Assignments 1–6
Program with pointers and arrays, perform pointer arithmetic, and use the preprocessor	1, 15	Exams 1 & 2; Programming Assignments 3–6
Write programs that perform explicit memory management.	1	Exam 1 & 2; Programming Assignments 3–6
Understand how to write and use functions, how the stack is used to implement function calls, and parameter passing options	1, 2, 15	Exams 1 & 2; Programming Assignments 1–6
Understand and use the common data structures typically found in C programs — namely arrays, strings, lists, trees, and hash tables	1, 6	Exams 1 & 2; Programming Assignments 2–6
Create programs that measure or simulate performance and use them to analyze behavior	13	Programming assignment 3 & 6
Understand low-level input and output routines.	1	Programming Assignments 1–6
Use Unix commands to manage files and develop programs, including multi-module programs	1	Labs 1–3; Programming Assignments 1–3
Use Visual Studio to manage files and develop programs, including multi-module programs	1	Labs 4-6; Programming Assignments 4-6

Department Outcomes are enumerated here:– http://web.cs.wpi.edu/CAC/Outcomes.html