CPSI 70133 - (was CPSC 7301) Essentials of Computer Software

Three hours lecture. Three credit hours.

Was CPSC 7301. Introduces students to important concepts and techniques in developing software and internet-based applications. Topics include: programming language paradigms, data structures, algorithms, and programming environments: compiled versus interpreted environments, web-based languages and scripting techniques, data access techniques and support for secure protocols, methods for querying and updating structured web documents and semi-structured data. Language issues in the development and management of commercial projects, etc. This course, coupled with CPSI 70233, will prepare the science or engineering graduate for the Computer Science master’s program, and the credit of this course is not counted towards the requirements of the master’s program.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing with an Engineering or Science degree and at least one programming language of C, C++, or Java.