Introduction to computer hardware and the programming commands to control them. Topics Include: hardware, operating systems and the software development life cycle which includes design, development, documentation, the importance of review, principles of testing and maintenance; algorithm development, procedural and structured programming with C/C++; data types, variables, expressions, selection and repetition structures, functions passing by value and reference, recursion, all about arrays, file input and output(I/O), error handling, and classes. This course gives students basic computer science concepts and skills.