Dec 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CSC 1510 - Adventures in Computer Science

Credits: 4
This course introduces students to how computers store and manipulate the information that impacts our daily lives. Topics will include: algorithmic thinking, how computers store and compress information, how computers communicate with one another, how major text algorithms and image manipulation algorithms work, cryptography, block chain and cryptocurrency, and the limits of computation. Advanced topics, if time allows, may include ethics and algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, databases, and others.
Prerequisite(s): MTH 1000  or placing out of MTH 1000  on the math placement exam. 
Fulfills: STEM in LS Core.