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Prerequisite: COS 101 or 108. Required for Business and Security options. This course is a study of COBOL syntax, constructs, and its applications in business programming. Topics include structured program design, control break processing, table usage, sorting, merging, report writing, and maintenance of sequential, indexed and relative files.
Introduction to robotics including the design, building, and programming simple robots. Included will be the basic science, engineering, and mathematics needed to design and build a simple robot. Students will also be introduced to the topic of project management. The course is a combination lecture/laboratory course that will meet five hours per week for three credit hours.
Prerequisites: COS109 and 310. A more advanced study of the complex discrete data structures explored in COS 310. Algorithms manipulating these structures are implemented in C++; using Object Oriented Programming techniques.
This course introduces different concepts of Information Security. It provides a broad overview of the threats to the security of information systems, the responsibilities and basic tools for information security, and the levels of training and expertise needed in organizations to reach and maintain a safe and acceptable security.