Computer Information Systems

This course examines the fundamental concepts of information technology (IT) focusing on essential aspects such as operating systems, virtualization, networking, cybersecurity, hardware, and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Students will explore core IT activities, key career roles, and implement practical skills including designing and managing a small office/home (SOHO) network and prompt engineering with GenAI.

This course covers the fundamentals of algorithms and object oriented software development. Topics include: modern IDE for software development, primitive and reference data types, encapsulation, information hiding, selection, iteration, functions/methods, parameters, recursion, exception handling, generic linear data structures (arrays, records/structs) and maps, file types, file I/O, simple GUIs with event handling, programming to an interface, lambda expressions, semantics of inheritance and use of polymorphism, relation with subtyping, search (sequential, binary), select (min, max), and sort (bubble, insertion, selection) algorithms, complexity notation, documentation using standard tools, program testing (unit testing) and debugging, reasoning about control flow in a program, and societal impacts related to computing and software.

An introductory course in web page development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Also included will be various software packages that automate the web page design process. These may include Dreamweaver, Sublime, Bootstrap, and others. This course is suitable for anyone who would like to create simple, but useful web pages. Topics include: the internet, tables, frames, forms, scripting language(s), and multi-media.