| Course Title: Foundations of Computer Science |
| Start Date: 09/04/2019 End Date: 12/17/2019 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2019 |
| Description: At its core, computer science is a field about creative problem solving. In this introductory course, students will develop the computational problem-solving skills required to approach a host of big and small problems from across the field, evaluate the quality of proposed solutions, and reason about the unintended side-effects of different approaches. Along the way, students will be exposed to a variety of research areas in computer science through examining some of their solved, unsolved, and unsolvable problems. Although programming is a tool that many computer scientists use to develop solutions, this is not a programming-based course. |
| Distribution(s): II - Math & Sciences |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Heather Pon-Barry | ponbarry@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2019 - 12/17/2019 | Lecture | Monday and Wednesday | 09:30AM - 10:45AM | KNDD - Kendade | 307 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Coreq: COMSC-100L. | Take concurrently | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course does not count toward the Computer Science major or minor. Students who have previously taken AP Computer Science or AP Computer Science Principles should consider taking COMSC-151 (or the CS placement exam) instead. |
| Course Tags | ||
| NXDTA0001 | NXDTA: Nexus in Data Analytics and Society | This course is approved for the Data Analytics |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 28 | Enrollment: 26 | Available: 2 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Understanding the Digital World Author: Kernighan, Brian Copyright: 2017 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780691176543 Publisher: Princeton University Press |
Required | 22.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: E-book is also available through the library. |