CATALOG DESCRIPTION: CS 211 teaches foundational software design skills at a small-to-medium scale. We aim to provide a bridge from the student-oriented How to Design Programs languages to real, ...

Two degrees and a minor are offered. Explore the program requirements below. Learn the fundamentals of computer science, including programming techniques, data structures and computer systems. Pursue ...

A broad survey of the computer science discipline, focusing on the computer's role in representing, storing, manipulating, organizing and communicating information. Topics include hardware, software, ...

Computers are all around us. How does this affect the world we live in? This course is a broad introduction to computing technology for humanities and social science students. Topics will be drawn ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

"All these people who've made it big have their own variation of the same story, where they felt lucky to be exposed to computer programming at the right age, and it bloomed into something that ...

In the interconnected world of big data, it’s no secret the field of computer science is booming. At Northwestern, the number of computer science majors has grown more than 600 percent since 2011, ...

Neural networks could give online education a boost by providing automated feedback to students. By Cade Metz This spring, Philips Pham was among the more than 12,000 people in 148 countries who took ...

For those who are new to hardware description languages (HDLs), or looking to refresh dormant skills, Nazeih Botros’s HDL Programming Fundamentals provides a basic course in both VHDL and Verilog.