CSCE 2100

For C++:

1. Be able to develop, design and implement simple computer programs.
2. Understand functions and parameter passing.
3. Be able to do numeric (algebraic) and string-based computation.
4. Understand object-oriented design and programming.
5. Understand dynamic memory allocation and pointers.
6. Be able to design, implement, and test relatively large C++ programs.

For JAVA:

1. Understand the format and use of objects.
2. Understand basic input/output methods and their use.
3. Understand object inheritance and its use.
4. Understand development of JAVA applets vs. JAVA applications.
5. Understand the use of various system libraries.

For PHP:

1. Understand process of executing a PHP-based script on a webserver.
2. Be able to develop a form containing several fields and be able to process the data provided on the form by a user in a PHP-based script.
3. Understand basic PHP syntax for variable use, and standard language constructs, such as conditionals and loops.
4. Understand the syntax and use of PHP object-oriented classes.
5. Understand the syntax and functions available to deal with file processing for files on the server as well as processing web URLs.
6. Understand the paradigm for dealing with form-based data, both from the syntax of HTML forms, and how they are accessed inside a PHP-based script.

For .NET:

1. Display proficiency in C# by building stand-alone applications in the .NET framework using C#.
2. Create distributed data-driven applications using the .NET Framework, C#, SQL Server and ADO.NET
3. Create web-based distributed applications using C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server and ADO.NET
4. Utilize DirectX libraries in the .NET environment to implement 2D and 3D animations and game-related graphic displays and audio.
5. Utilize XML in the .NET environment to create Web Service-based applications and components.

For Android Programming:

1. Understand the existing state of mobile app development via researching existing apps, meeting with industry professionals, and formulating new ideas.
2. Display proficiency in coding on a mobile programming platform.
3. Understand the limitations and features of developing for mobile devices.
4. Create a complete Mobile app with a significant programming component, involving the sensors and hardware features of the phone.
5. Understand the economics and features of the app marketplace by offering the app for download.

CSCE 2100 and CSCE 2110

Lecture Notes, Slides and Online Resources. http://www.cse.unt.edu/~garlick/

1. Demonstrate knowledge of Internet structure and basic protocols, with an emphasis on the client-server paradigm.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of and proficiency in basic techniques for web-based design.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of programming techniques for a web application.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of collecting and processing information obtained through an Internet application, including integration with data storage.
5. Develop web-based interactive functionality to process user data on the server-side.

CSCE 3110

Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 8th edition, Pressman, Maxim, McGraw Hill, ISBN 9780078022128

1. Use UML for design, such as use cases and class diagrams.
2. Conduct software testing, such as validation, integration, and unit testing.
3. Conduct usability testing, such as heuristic evaluations.
4. Participate in peer reviews such as code inspections.
5. Communicate software product and process results in oral and written form.

CSCE 2100

CSCE 3600

CSCE 3600

Computer Networking with Access 7th edition; Kurose, Pearson. ISBN 9780133594140

1. Understand a conceptual view of the role of computers in communications.
2. Understand communication protocols in the Internet.
3. Be able to do fundamental network programming.
4. Understand different network architecture.
5. Recognize the role of application protocols.
6. Understand different routing and forwarding protocols.

CSCE 3600

Security in Computing, 5th Edition, Pfleeger, Pfleeger, & Margulies, Prentice Hall, 2015, ISBN 978-0-13-408504-3. 
Reference Textbook: Introduction to Computer Security, Matt Bishop, Pearson, 2005, ISBN 0- 321-24744-2.

1.     Understand common security terminology, threats, vulnerabilities, and security design principles.

2. Understand basic cryptography concepts, and specific commonly used algorithms and protocols.

3. Understand common program vulnerabilities, and secure programming techniques.

4. Understand formal security models, including Bell-LaPadula (MLS), Biba, and Chinese Wall security.

5. Understand basic network security issues and controls.

6. Understand administrative issues in security, such as planning, security policies, and risk analysis.

7. Understand privacy concepts and data anonymization.

8. Obtain hands-on experience in using common security tools, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and port scanning software.

CSCE 3600

CSCE 2100

System Programming with C and Unix, 1st Edition, Hoover, Addison Wesley, ISBN 9780136067122

1. Write robust, efficient, readable and correct system software using the C programming language.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of processes and threads by developing applications using multiple processes and multi-threaded activities in a Linux environment.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of deadlocks and synchronization through the development of application(s) that utilize a variety of mutual exclusion mechanisms.
4. Develop shell scripts and utilities that demonstrate an understanding of memory, file and process management and interaction, including concepts such as virtual memory and disk scheduling.
5. Create a Linux-based application that utilizes inter-process communication mechanisms such as pipes and sockets to communicate information between independently running processes on one or multiple platforms.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of the use and interaction among compilers, macro processors, assemblers, linkers and loaders through their use in creating the applications described in previous outcomes.

CSCE 3600

Unix + Linux System Admin Handbook 5th Edition; Nemeth, Pearson. ISBN 9780133594140

1. Identify and analyze user needs.
2. Structure user requirements in the selection, creation, evaluation and administration of computer-based systems.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of computer systems maintenance by providing and maintaining computers for users with a wide range of computing needs and abilities.
4. Design various hardware components such as switches, routers, load balancers, wireless controllers and network management platforms to provide network services that support interaction among computer-based systems.
5. Effectively integrate IT-Based solutions into the user environment.

CSCE 2610; CSCE 3730.

Designer's Guide to VHDL 3rd Edition; Ashenden, Elsevier. ISBN 9780120887859        

Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition; Patterson, Elsevier. ISBN 9780128017333                           

1. Design ALUs to perform integer and floating point arithmetic including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
2. Design a simple single-cycle processor using Hardware Description Language (HDL)
3. Design a simple processor pipeline
4. Design a co-processor
5. Apply compiler techniques to improve program performance
6. Evaluate cache memories and various cache design alternatives
7. Demonstrate understanding of input-output systems and interrupts by writing simple interrupt handlers.

CSCE 2610; ENGR 2720; ENGR 2730

Computers as Components, 4th Edition; Elsevier.                   ISBN 9780128053874

1. Understand the differences between embedded computing systems and general purpose computing systems, including constraints on performance, energy consumption, memory and physical dimensions.
2. Able to specify embedded systems using UML or other high level abstract models.
3. Able to use modern micro-controllers, including programming and interfacing such micro-controllers.
4. Understand the use of DSP processors and other Application Specific processors.
5. Understand trade-offs associated with using micro-controllers, DSPs, ASICs and FPGAs to meet embedded system requirements.

CSCE 2100

Systems Analysis and Design, 11th Edition; Cengage.            ISBN 9781305494602 

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the multiple layers of abstraction in modern computer systems and the interface between software and hardware.
2. Evaluate the hardware requirements for at IT System and select the proper architecture and components necessary to satisfy the requirements.
3. Evaluate the software requirements for an IT System, and define a software architecture to satisfy the requirements.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the use of UML and analysis and design patterns in the development of a system design.
5. Demonstrate understanding of design and development methodologies and architectural paradigms through laboratory assignments and a class project.
6. Demonstrate communication skills that will enable clear reasoning and logical descriptions of problems and solutions in the design, implementation and management of large-scale IT Systems.

CSCE 2610

Required: FPGA-Based System Design, 2004, Wolf, Prentice Hall, ISBN 9780131424616; Optional: Designer's Guide to VHDL, 3rd edition, Ashenden, Morka, ISBN 9780120887859; VHDL: A Starter's Guide, 2nd Edition, Yalamanchili, Prentice Hall, ISBN 9780131457355

1. Students will understand the concept of reconfigurable logic.
2. Students will know how FPGA (most popular reconfigurable device) is designed.
3. Have an overall view of Computer Aided Design (CAD) for FPGA.
4. Understand specific algorithms utilized in technology mapping, placement and routing.
5. Learn how to use the hardware description language -- VHDL to simulate and synthesis digital circuit system.
6. Capable of using commercial CAD tools to design and simulate digital circuits.

CSCE 2100

Admission to the Honors College, at least junior class status, consent of Honors College dean

Varies

Varies

CSCE 3600; Outside Department: Junior standing and advised from the Engineering Advising.

The Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethic l Issues of Computing Technology (5th Ed). by Baase, Sara and Henry, Timothy. Pearson, 2018.

ISBN-13: 9780137501946 (e-text) / 978-0134615271 (print)

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1. Demonstrate an awareness of the social responsibilities in all areas of computing.
2. Explain the need for professional ethics.
3. Generate an effective written communication incorporating a topic related to social and ethical issues in computing.
4. Demonstrate team work skills on a project for a topic related to a social or ethical issue in computing.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary issues in computing.

CSCE 3600; Outside Department: Junior standing and advised from the Engineering Advising.

The Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethic l Issues of Computing Technology (5th Ed). by Baase, Sara and Henry, Timothy. Pearson, 2018.

ISBN-13: 9780137501946 (e-text) / 978-0134615271 (print)

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1. Demonstrate an awareness of the social responsibilities in all areas of computing.
2. Explain the need for professional ethics.
3. Generate an effective written communication incorporating a topic related to social and ethical issues in computing.
4. Demonstrate team work skills on a project for a topic related to a social or ethical issue in computing.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary issues in computing.

CSCE 2100 and CSCE 2110

Introduction to Modern Cryptography, 2nd Edition; Taylor. ISBN 9781466570269  

Cryptography Engineering, 2nd Edition; Wiley.                        ISBN 9780470474242

1. Understand Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption systems.
2. Understand various block cipher modes.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of standard symmetric encryption systems, such as, DES and AES.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of standard asymmetric encryption systems, such as, RSA.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of common cryptography applications, such as, KERBEROS, PGP, and PKI Systems.
6. Understand hash functions and message authentication codes.

CSCE 3110

Computer Ethics, 4th edition; Pearson.                                    ISBN 9780131112414          

Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd; Triliteral MIT.                         ISBN 9780262033848

1. Be able to analyze the time and space complexity of a nontrivial algorithm, using mathematical tools, and prove/justify the correctness.
2. Understand the Divide and Conquer, Greedy, and Dynamic Programming strategies for algorithmic design.
3. Be familiar with the algorithms for Matrix Multiplication (Strassen's), Activity Selection, Knapsack, Shortest Paths (single source, and all pairs), Minimum Spanning Tree (Prim's and Kruskal's), Matrix Chain, and Longest Common Subsequence problems.
4. Be exposed to approximation algorithms for solving NP-hard problems.
5. Be able to determine and measure the efficiency of a given algorithm, in practice, through different possible implementations, and by testing on suitable data sets.
6. Be able to communicate clearly and precisely in writing about the theoretical analysis of an algorithm and its efficiency in practice.