CPSC 7301 - Essentials of Computer Software

Three hours lecture. Three credit hours.

This course 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 and CPSC 7302 will prepare the science or engineering graduates for the computer science master program and the credit of this course is not counted towards the requirement of the master program.

Prerequisites: Graduate Standing with an engineering or science degree and at least one programming language of C, C++ or Java.