LA HARBOR COLLEGE
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Assessment Report
Course Assessment
Division: Math Physical Science
Discipline/Program:
Computer Science Information Technology
Course Number and Name: COSCI 340 Programming in C++
Program Contact Person: Lora Lane
Phone: X4178
Reviewed by: Elena Reigadas, SLO Assessment Coordinator
Date:
October 2013
Outcomes changed to reflect requirements of the statewide Course Identification Number System (C-ID)
Institutional
Learning Outcomes
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Course Intended Outcomes
1. Design, implement, test, and
debug a program that uses each of
the following fundamental
programming constructs: basic
computation, simple I/O, standard
conditional and iterative structures,
and the definition of functions.
Means of Assessment and Criteria for
Success
Students will be asked to design, implement,
test and debug a program that gets input from
the user repetitively, performs calculations on
that input with if statements and outputs the
results. The code will be broken into
procedures and functions for readability and
efficiency.
2. Use pseudocode or a
programming language to design,
implement, test, and debug
algorithms for solving simple
problems.
75% of students will submit a working program
that meets all of the requirements.
Given a problem description in English,
students will create a pseudocode algorithm to
solve the problem. They will then translate the
pseudocode to a working program with
documentation.
3. Summarize the evolution of
programming languages illustrating
how this history has led to the
paradigms available today.
75% of students will submit an algorithm and a
matching operational program.
Students will perform research using the
textbook and the Internet and summarize it in a
written description of the evolution of objectoriented languages like C++.
4. Demonstrate the proper
declaration and use of variables
80% of students will submit a report scoring a
‘C’ or better according to a rubric.
Students will answer short answer questions to
evaluate code and write program segments
demonstrating the appropriate use of block, local
Summary of Data
Collected
Use of Results
considering their address, value,
scope, persistence and size.
and globally defined abstract and primitive data
types.
75% of students will score a ‘C’ or better on the
questions.
October 2012
Institutional
Learning Outcomes
2
Course Intended Outcomes
1. Carry out activities in the
program creation process; design,
code, compile and debug.
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2. Choose the appropriate data type
of structure for a problem.
2
3. Choose a suitable control
structure and code it in a program.
2
4. Design a variety of classes
using object oriented principles
and implement them in programs.
Means of Assessment and Criteria for
Success
Students were asked to write the following
program:
Imagine you own a company and you want to
develop an electronic system for your
customers to browse inventory and purchase
items you have in stock. Your inventory is
kept in a text file and may include some items
that are on sale. Your customers can browse
your inventory, add items to their cart, and
check out when they are done. They will get a
receipt with the items they purchased and their
total amount. (additional instructions followed)
To be measured in Spring 13
Students are asked to write the following
program:
Write a program to prompt the user for an
integer between 1 and 20 and then print out a
table with the one column being the numbers
going from 1 to the user's number, and the
second column being the square of those
numbers (including the column headings
shown in the sample output below). If the user
enters a negative number, or a number outside
of the range 1-20, prompt them to try again. As
long as they keep entering any number other
than zero, your program should keep looping
and printing their table. If the user enters 0,
your program should quit.
Students are asked to write the following
program:
Write a program to store and calculate a student's
grades using a StudentGrade class. Their overall
grade will be calculated based on the following
(160 points total):
a) One quiz worth 10 points
b) One midterm worth 50 points
Summary of Data
Collected
Spring 2012
1 online section
Final Project
11 90% or higher
03 80% or higher
01 70% or higher
02 60% or higher
01 50% or higher
01 15%
06 did not attempt
Spring 2012
1 online section
Assignment 4
21 90% or higher
02 80% or higher
01 got 3%
01 did not attempt
Use of Results
This was the final project for the
class that incorporated almost all
of the concepts learned throughout
the semester. The distribution of
grades seems to indicate that it was
a fair final project.
Of the students that did not
attempt, most had already stopped
participating and one had been
struggling throughout the semester.
The scores indicate that this
assignment was too simple.
Students incorporated two kinds of
loops: for-loops and while-loops,
but they obviously had no
problems with the concepts. A
more difficult assignment is
recommended.
The student that scored 3%
guessed on the multiple choice
portion and did not submit the
programming assignment. She
stopped participating in the class
shortly after.
Spring 2012
1 online section
Assignment 6
13 90% or higher
07 80% or higher
03 70% or higher
01 60% or higher
02 did not attempt
The distribution of scores from this
assignment seems to indicate that it
was about the right level of
difficulty. The most common
problems were related to the
newly-learned concepts of classes,
including public vs. private
variables and member functions.
c) One final worth 100 points
Their overall grade will be A-F based on the
typical grading scale: 0-60% is an F, 60-70% is a
D, 70-80% is a C, 80-90% is a B, and 90-100% is
an A.
The program will prompt the user for the quiz
score, the midterm score, and the final score. It
will then set these values on
a StudentGrade object and call a method
called getOverallLetterGrade() to get the student's
overall letter grade (like 'B')
and getOverallNumericGrade() to get the overall
percentage (like 84.375). You can assume that
each of the scores are integers but the overall
calculated grade will need to be a double.
Below is the sample output:
Please enter the quiz score (0-10): <user enters
8>
Please enter the midterm score (0-50): <user
enters 42>
Please enter the final score (0-100): <user enters
85>
The student's overall grade is: B (84.375%)
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5. Use predefined classes in
programs.
Students are asked to write the following
program:
We will use two files for this new class:
StudentPrinter.h and StudentPrinter.cpp.
I will provide the .h and .cpp files for the
original StudentGrade class as well as the
original main() since it is based on the solution
to Assignment 6 (attached below). Your
assignment is to modify main() to create a
vector of StudentGrades and also develop the .h
and .cpp files for a new class called
StudentPrinter that will take the vector as a
parameter to the constructor and stores it in a
private member variable, and then has a
Spring 2012
1 online section
Assignment 10
13 90% or higher
06 80% or higher
01 70% or higher
05 did not attempt
Some students had trouble
understanding the concept of a
vector that contained objects.
Spring break fell between the
classes and vectors modules and
this module, so maybe a refresher
would have been helpful.
The students who did not attempt
this assignment had already
stopped participating in the class at
this point.
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6. Utilize an array to code a
solution to a repetitive problem.
method called printGrades() that will print the
final grades for each student in the vector.
Students are asked to write the following
program:
Write a program that tells the user which of
their numbers is out of order, if any. To do
this, you will prompt the user to enter 10
numbers, store them into an array using a loop,
and then pass that array to a function called
outOfOrder which will check if they are in
increasing order. If they are in increasing
order, your function will return -1, otherwise it
will return the index of the first element that
was not in increasing order. Your main()
function should check the return value of the
outOfOrder function and print either a message
telling the user their numbers were in order, or
tell them which was the first number out of
order.
Below is a sample run:
Please enter ten numbers: <user enters 1 2.2 3
4.6 5 6.9 7.3 8 9.7 100>
Your numbers are in order!
Another sample run:
Please enter ten numbers: <user enters 5 6 7.9
1.2 8 9.35 10 15 20.6 50.2>
The number 1.2 is the first number out of order.
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7. Write a program that reads
input data from a file or keyboard
and formats it for output to the
screen or file.
Students are asked to write the following
program:
Read student scores from a text file called
Scores.txt, and print the overall grades to
another text file called OverallGrades.txt.
The format of your input file (Scores.txt) will
look like the following:
# students
quiz midterm final (for Student 1)
quiz midterm final (for Student 2)
... etc, one line per student
For example, if you wanted to list scores for 3
students, Scores.txt would look like the
following:
3
Spring 2012
1 online section
Assignment 5
14 90% or higher
08 80% or higher
01 70%
02 did not attempt
Many of the errors made by
students were in passing
parameters to functions and
returning values.
Some students also had trouble
getting the logic right of looping
until they encountered a number
out of order.
Assignment was fairly early in
class and maybe students weren’t
comfortable enough with the
required concepts.
Spring 2012
1 online section
This was the 11th
assignment.
14 scored 90% or above
03 scored 80% or above
03 scored 70% or above
01 scored 25%
04 did not attempt
This assignment was probably too
easy since the majority of students
scored above 90%. It was very
similar to the previous assignment
with the addition of using files.
The difficulty should be increased.
The students who did not attempt
this assignment had already
stopped participating in the class at
this point.
9 45 96
8 35 88
5 23 67
The format of your output file should look
like the following:
Student 1's overall grade is: A (93.75%)
Student 2's overall grade is: B (81.875%)
Student 3's overall grade is: F (59.375%)