This course aims to equip students with essential programming skills for object-oriented (OO) programming, so as to lay a solid foundation for other computer science related courses.  After finishing this course, students should be able to articulate and write an object-oriented program, and have adequately grasped the necessary fundamental computer programming knowledge on which other computer science courses are built.

For a student to pass the course, at least 40% of the maximum mark for the continuous assessment and 30% of the maximum mark for the examination must be obtained.