- International Fees
International fees are typically three times the amount of domestic fees. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
Course details
This course introduces students to discrete mathematics, statistics, and Boolean logic, and applies these mathematical constructs to computer program code. The purpose of this course is twofold: one, introduce students to math that is immediately applicable to their studies and programming for web application development; two, demonstrate to students the importance of these facets of math in their software development and design studies by allowing students to create real-world examples in computer program code that demonstrate the importance of math in computer science.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
4.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Build a corresponding truth table for a Boolean expression. .
- Explain how text and graphics are represented inside the computer. .
- Perform arithmetic operations with numbers represented in different number systems (binary, octal, and hexadecimal).
- Convert from base 10 to and from other bases for number systems including Binary, Hexadecimal, and Octal.
- Construct and describe finite-state machines using state-transition diagrams.
- Analyze Big-O notation and how it applies to algorithms.
- Describe and use graphs and trees.
- Use algorithms to find a minimum-spanning tree for a graph.
- Use depth-first search and breadth-first search algorithms.
- Use basic set theory and counting (inclusion/exclusion principle, pigeonhole principle).
- Explain basic encryption and decryption techniques, and encrypt and decrypt sample data.
- Explain the purpose of hashing, and use hashing algorithms to create hashes of sample data.
- Explain popular statistical study methods learn the positives and negatives of each.
- Create and interpret histograms, bar charts, and frequency plots.
- Explain central tendency.
- Compute and interpret the three measures of center for distributions: mean, median, and mode.
- Quantify the spread of data using the range and standard deviation.
- Identify outliers in data sets using the concept of the interquartile range.
- Convert distributions into the standard normal distribution using the Z-score.
- Compute proportions using standardized distributions.
- Use normalized distributions to compute probabilities.
- Use Z-table or software to look up the proportions of observations above, below, or in between values.
- Apply the concepts of probability and normalization to sample data sets.
Effective as of Fall 2019
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Mathematics for Computing (MATH 1320) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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