Dr. Melody Stapleton's Home Page
California State University, Chico


Maintained by Melody
Stapleton, Professor, Department of Computer Science,
California State University,
Chico
(last
update: 1/23/2012)

Current Course Offerings for Spring 2012:
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CSCI 217 – Foundations of Computing including Discrete Math Structures. Prerequisites: CSCI 111 with a grade of C- or higher, completion of ELM
requirement.
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Offers an intensive introduction to discrete mathematics as it is used
in computer science. Topics include functions, relations, sets, propositional
and predicate logic, simple circuit logic, proof techniques, elementary
combinatorics, and discrete probability. Formerly CSCI 198.
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Take
this link to find out more about this course.
Ř CSCI 311 – Algorithms and
Data Structures with C++. Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better
in CSCI 211 - Programming and Algorithms II or equivalent.
Ř This course
focuses on object-oriented methodologies in designing and implementing a
variety of data structures and algorithms. Coverage includes recursion,
advanced tree structures, search structures, hashing, heaps, sorting
algorithms, and graph algorithms.
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this Link to find out more about this course.
Ř CINS 370 – Introduction to Databases. Prerequisite:
A grade of C- or better in CSCI 211- Programming and Algorithms II or
equivalent.
Ř This course provides an introduction to the theory and
methodology for database design and implementation. Topics may include a
survey/lecture component as well as a project component. The survey component
covers entity- relationship modeling, relational algebra and calculus theories,
data definition and data manipulation languages such as SQL, file structures,
transactions, concurrency control, recovery, tuning and optimization, and
object-oriented databases. The project entails requirements definition, design,
and implementation of a database application.
Take
this link to find out more about this course.

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