Many thanks to Stanford University for publishing this course as open courseware and making it available to everyone on the Internet.

Topics focus on the introduction to the engineering of computer applications emphasizing modern software engineering principles: object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing.

Programming Methodology teaches the widely-used Java programming language along with good software engineering principles. Emphasis is on good programming style and the built-in facilities of the Java language. The course is explicitly designed to appeal to humanists and social scientists as well as hard-core techies. In fact, most Programming Methodology graduates end up majoring outside of the School of Engineering.

This course comprises of 28 lectures, and some accompanying homework, which you will find below in the course sections.

Prerequisites: The course requires no previous background in programming, but does require considerable dedication and hard work.