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Inside CIS 162 Computer Science I
February 09, 2017
Critters dying, illegal gambling and wild adventures in faraway lands are some of what happens in CIS 162. This course introduces the challenge and creativity of computer programming. Professor Scott Grissom, course coordinator, explains “our goal is to assign a series of programming assignments that introduce basic skills but also provide an opportunity for students to be creative.”
For the first assignment, students write Java code to display a personal business card with their picture, a logo and a clever tagline describing their fictional business. Assignments become more complex through the term including dice games such as craps and Yahtzee. Assignments involving large data sets such as Yellowstone geyser eruption times, movie titles or credit card information for thousands of customers demonstrate the power of computers to process information quickly.