Computer Science

Skills and knowledge you may gain from your program:

• Discuss factors that influence the choice of algorithms, including computational efficiency, programming time, maintainability, and the use of application-specific patterns in the input data
• Apply algorithmic solutions to help understand the mapping of real-world problem
• Summarize the phases of software development and compare several common lifecycle models and be able to select a suitable system or software implementation to manage data, information, and knowledge
• Develop specifications for a software development effort that fully specify functional requirements and identify the expected execution path
• Design and implement standalone applications, client-server based applications and web applications using computer languages suitable for the application
• Define software quality and describe the role of quality assurance activities in the software process
• Build, manage and engage with a team to successfully complete a project in a timely manner
• Create appropriate models for the structure and behavior of software products from their requirements specifications
• Describe several approaches to using a computer as a means for interacting with and processing data and apply standard APIs as well as tools to create visual applications and data displays