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 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. Students have the opportunity to take the industry recognized CompTIA Tech+ certification.

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 secure web development focusing on the design and creation of web-based applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web languages and technologies. Special emphasis is placed on the foundational skills of web development and implementing the principles and practices of secure software design and development. Also included will be various software packages and frameworks to aid in the web design process. This course is suitable for anyone who would like to create simple, but useful webpages. Topics include: the internet, tables, frames, forms, scripting language(s), and multimedia.