Scott D. Anderson's Courses

• CIS 100: Introduction to Computers: This is a course for students not majoring in Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering. It gives a basic idea of how computers work, their capabilities and limitations, and teaches common application programs to do word processing, spreadsheet calculations, and database processing.
• CIS 193: Introduction to Computers (Honors): This is a course designed to give students an understanding of how a computer works, how the internet works and how to employ them effectively as tools. We will learn several application programs: a word processor, namely Corel WordPerfect; a spreadsheet, namely Lotus 123; and a presentation application, namely Microsoft Powerpoint. We will also learn internet software and technology: email, a web browser, search engines, and HTML. We will discuss the capabilities, limitations, and societal impact of computer technology. As an honors course, this course will have substantial research and writing assignments, including preparing web pages. It is not restricted to students in the honors program.
• CIS 213: Foundations of Computer Science This course is one of the two required courses for sophomore computer science majors and is prerequisite for most upper-level classes in Computer Science, so it's also taken by students minoring in Computer Science. The course is an introduction to the theoretical foundations of computer science with emphasis on data structures to represent sets, tables, trees and graphs. The complexity of operations on these data structures is analyzed. The mathematical technique of induction is introduced. Broad areas of the field of advanced computer science are introduced. Prerequisite: CIS 122 or consent of the department.
• CIS 216: Computer Organization and Design: This is a required course for second-year Computer Science majors and covers the workings of a computer's hardware and low-level software. All materials for this course are in the 216 class directory. A shortcut for those on the Unix systems is ~anderson/216/.
• CIS 326: File Processing and Database Management: This is a required course for third-year Computer Science majors and covers how computers handle and the beginnings of relational databases. All materials for this course are in the 326 class directory. A shortcut for those on the Unix systems is ~anderson/326/.
• CIS 401: Computer Graphics: This is an elective course for computer science majors and covers the basics of how computer graphics are used, implemented and rendered. All materials for this course are in the 401 class directory. A shortcut for those on the Unix systems is ~anderson/401/.
• CIS 437: Computer Simulation: This course is an elective in both Computer Science and Environmental Science. It is an introduction to the basics of Discrete Event Simulation and Continuous Simulation. Covers why simulation is used, how to model systems and how to ensure the correctness of the models. Explains how simulations are implemented on computers. Discusses random variate generation. Describes the statistical analysis of results. Prerequisites:Computer Science I (CIS 121) and Statistics (Math 205).