Schedule of Classes

An introduction to programming concepts and languages for non-Computer Science (CS) majors. Topics include the structure and design of algorithms, variables, constants, data types, arithmetic operations, selection and repetition structures, functions, input/output, arrays, structures, files, libraries. Students will design, write, test and run computer programs using a modern programming language as the development tool.

Introduces the fundamental concepts of programming from an object-oriented perspective. Topics include simple data types, control structures (if-else loops, switch statements), introduction to array and string data structures, algorithms, debugging and testing techniques, and social implications of computing. The course emphasizes good software engineering principles and practices, breaking the programming process into analysis, design, implementation, and testing, with primary focus on implementation and development of fundamental programming skills.

Introduction to concepts of object-oriented programming with review of control structures and data types and array processing. Introduction to the object-oriented programming paradigm, focusing on the definition and use of classes along with the fundamentals of object-oriented design. Overview of programming principles, simple analysis of algorithms, searching and sorting techniques, and an introduction to software engineering issues.

Advanced programming concepts and languages appropriate to computer science and computer information systems. Topics include dynamic memory management, garbage collection, advanced object-oriented concepts, generic programming, exception handling, recursion, overloading.

An introduction to programming in Python for non-CS majors. Topics include basic conditional logic, string manipulation, functions, reading/writing with simple files and exceptions. Popular data structures like sets, tuples, lists and dictionaries will be covered. Packages like pandas and numpy will also be presented. Students will design, write, test and run computer programs using Python and within an integrated development environment.

Advanced topics in object-oriented programming with an emphasis on advanced data structures, algorithms, and software development.

Basics of logic circuit design, modern processor architecture, and assembly language. Overview of principle issues of internal system architecture, including memory, buses, and peripherals.

Fundamentals of data communications: data transmission, data encoding, digital data communication techniques, data link control, and multiplexing. The Web as a client-server system, building Web applications, network management and security, compression and decompression. Multimedia data technologies, wireless and mobile computing, and event-driven programming.

Relational database design, including entity relationship modeling and normalization. Structured query language (SQL) for creating and querying databases. Other topics include the theory of relational databases, including relational algebra, various loading and reporting utilities, and the implementation of database management systems, e.g. how query optimization works.

Software life cycle and its phases, analysis, process models, design, human-computer interaction and graphic user interface development, testing, verification, validation, tools and applications, and evolution of software systems.

Pattern recognition, search strategies, game playing, knowledge representation; logic programming, uncertainty, vision, natural language processing, robotics, programming in LISP and PROLOG. Advanced topics in artificial intelligence. Cross-listed with CS 561.

Machine learning and intelligent systems. Covers the major approaches to ML and IS building, including the logical (logic programming and fuzzy logic, covering ML algorithms), the biological (neural networks and deep learning, genetic algorithms), and the statistical (regression, Bayesian and belief networks, Markov models, decision trees and clustering) approaches. Students use ML to discover the knowledge base and then build complete, integrated, hybrid intelligent systems for solving problems in a variety of applications. Cross listed with CS 562.

Brings together the latest research in statistics, databases, machine learning, and artificial intelligence that are part of the rapidly growing field of knowledge discovery and data mining. Topics covered include algorithms for the data cleansing and preprocessing phase (holes, outliers, attribute selection and transformation, etc.), selected supervised machine learning algorithms for modeling forecasting and classification, selected unsupervised machine learning algorithms, trend and deviation analysis, dependency modeling, integrated discovery and ensemble systems, meta-processing (boosting, stacking, etc.) and application case studies. Cross-listed with CS 563.

Introduction to the social and professional issues and practices that arise in the context of computing.

Applies the concepts and skills learned by undergraduate computer science majors at Bradley University. Students are required to work on a team on a significant software project.

Agile methodology, agile methods, and agile software engineering, including framework activities, SDLC models, requirements analysis, architectures, services, integrated development environments, testing, and quality issues. Cross listed with CS 593. For cross listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course.

Individual study or research/development project under supervision of a CS&IS faculty member. May be repeated under a different topic once. Repeatable to a maximum of six semester hours.

Introduces the fundamental concepts of programming from an object-oriented perspective with emphasis on advanced programming skills and good software development principles in a closed laboratory setting. Covers topics including object-oriented paradigm, design and programming, fundamental data structures and computing algorithms, and software development principles. If needed, course should be taken during first regular semester at Bradley. Credit for this course does not count towards graduation requirements in any graduate program within the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.

Design and analysis of algorithms. Dynamic structures maintenance and hashing. Searching, sorting, and traversal. Time and space requirements; simplification; computational complexity; proof theory and testing; NP-hard and NP-complete problems.

Fundamental computer sub-systems: central processing unit; memory systems; control and input/output units. General purpose computing systems design. Examples from existing typical computers.

ntroduction to PERL/CGI, XHTML, XML, JavaScript and scripting languages. Web page design and layout. Client and server side development of web applications. Database connectivity, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC).

This course will cover programming constructs and features, data structures for data storage, such as sets, tuples, lists, dictionaries, trees and graphs, and algorithms for sorting, information retrieval from tree and graph data structures and search techniques such as binary tree search, depth and breadth depth first search of graphs. The programming language used is Python. Packages like pandas and numpy will also be presented. Assignments will focus on Python programming for natural language processing, machine learning, and data science applications. Students will design, write, test and run computer programs using Python and within an integrated development environment.

This course will combine two types of problem-solving: inferential thinking, and computational thinking applied to real-world problems. The course teaches critical concepts and skills in computer programming, at an accelerated pace, and an analysis of real-world datasets using statistical inference and a number of machine learning algorithms. The emphasis is on the use of tools and languages for data analysis and modeling.

Pattern recognition, search strategies, game playing, knowledge representation; logic programming, uncertainty, vision, natural language processing, robotics, programming in LISP and PROLOG. Advanced topics in artificial intelligence. Cross-listed with CS 461. For cross-listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate-level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course.

Machine learning and intelligent systems. Covers the major approaches to ML and IS building, including the logical (logic programming and fuzzy logic, covering ML algorithms), the biological (neural networks and deep learning, genetic algorithms), and the statistical (regression, Bayesian and belief networks, Markov models, decision trees and clustering) approaches. Students use ML to discover the knowledge base and then build complete, integrated, hybrid intelligent systems for solving problems in a variety of applications. Cross listed with CS 462. For cross-listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate-level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course.

Brings together the latest research in statistics, databases, machine learning, and artificial intelligence that are part of knowledge discovery and data mining. Topics include algorithms for the data cleansing and preprocessing phase, selected supervised machine learning algorithms for modeling forecasting and classification, selected unsupervised machine learning algorithms, trend and deviation analysis, dependency modeling, integrated discovery and ensemble systems, meta-processing (boosting, stacking, etc.) and application case studies. Cross-listed with CS 463. For cross-listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate-level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course.

Relational database design, including entity relationship modeling and normalization. Structured query language (SQL) for creating and querying databases. Other topics include the theory of relational databases, including relational algebra, various loading and reporting utilities, and the implementation of database management systems, e.g., how query optimization works.

Software engineering: software product; prescriptive process models; system engineering; analysis modeling; design engineering; architectural design; user interface design; testing strategies and techniques; software systems' implementation; software systems' maintenance.

Methods of PMBOK-based management of software systems design and development projects, including systems view, main project management process groups and knowledge areas, management plans, project metrics and estimates, tools for project management, project reports and documentation. Cross listed with CIS 491 and CIS 591 courses. For cross listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course.

Covers topics including basic concepts and principles of software requirements engineering, the requirements engineering process, requirements elicitation, requirements analysis, requirements specification, system modeling, requirements validation and requirements management, and techniques, methods, and tools for requirements engineering and software systems requirements modeling (including structured, object-oriented and formal approaches to requirements modeling and analysis).

Agile methodology, agile methods, and agile software engineering, including framework activities, SDLC models, requirements analysis, architectures, services, integrated development environments, testing, and quality issues. Cross listed with CS 493. For cross listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course.

For graduate students in Computer Science (CS) or Data Science and Analytics-Computational Data Science concentration (DSA-CD). Computer Science or Data Science research and thesis preparation. Required of candidates choosing the thesis option. Total of 6 semester hrs. to be taken in one or two semesters. Any semester after the six hours, the student must register for zero hours to maintain progress, after the thesis advisor's and department chair's approval.