Courses

This page gives basic information for CS courses - when offered, normal content, sequencing, etc. You should also see the information at CS Programs.

CS Courses

The table below lists all currently offered CS courses, when they are normally offered, which programming languages are normally used, and links to the most recent syllabus for each faculty member who has recently taught the course.

A spreadsheet shows the normal sequencing of courses for the BS and MS degrees, and which terms the courses are normally offered in - course sequencing spreadsheet. Below there is also an indication given whether each course is normally offered in the fall, spring, summer, or some combination. If there are no "Y" for a course, it is offered as needed. For courses listed as "even" or "odd", the course is offered only in even (or odd) numbered years. Most CS courses are offered via distance. By default, each CS course is offered in a face to face section and a simultaneous online synchronous section (over Zoom). Some courses are offered asynchronously (no fixed meeting times, lectures by video); these are marked "Y/D" in the table below. All courses are 3 credit hours unless otherwise noted. A few 400 level undergraduate courses have lab sections that are taken with the course (401, 456, 457, 458); the 500 level courses do /not/ have lab sections that are taken (so undergraduates take CS 401 and 401L, while graduates would take just CS 501).

If you want to look up a syllabus for a particular term (for recent years), see https://cs.indstate.edu/info/syllabi/

For links to class websites for the current term (for those that use class websites), see https://cs.indstate.edu/info/students.html

Course	Name	Fall	Spring	Summer	Syllabus	Language(s)
SH 199	Summer Honors (for high school students)			Y	summer honors
CSS 210	Introduction to Networking	Y/D			Abhyankar
CSS 211	Introduction to Computer Security		Y/D		Abhyankar
CSS 331	Files and Databases	Y/D			May
CS 101	Fundamentals of Computing	Y/D	Y/D		May, Kinne, Sternfeld, model	pseudocode, python
CS 110	Fast Track Programming (1-3 hrs)				model	C or Python
CS 151	Introduction to Computer Science	Y/D	Y/D	Y/D	Kinne D & Schnabel, Kinne J et al., May, Schotter, Baker, Rafiey, Sternfeld	python
CS 170	Web Programming	Y/D	Y/D		May, Sternfeld, Baker,Kinne	html/css, javascript
CS 201	Programming Structures (4 hrs)	Y/D	Y		May Sternfeld, Exoo,Kinne	python
CS 203 (formerly 303)	Discrete Structures (4 hrs)	Y	Y		Sternfeld, Egri	(python/sage optional)
CS 256	Principles of Structured Design	Y/D			Abhyankar Baker, Golish, Schotter, Basavaraj	C
CS 260	Object Oriented Programming				D.Kinne, Boulware, Baker, Carrillo,Sternfeld	Processing/Java
CS 302 (formerly 202)	Data Structures and Algorithms (4 hrs)	Y	Y/D		Kinne , Golish, Schotter, Exoo	C, C++
CS 305	Computer Science Teaching Methods				model
CS 351	Computer Organization (4 hrs)	Y	Y/D		Baker, model || assembly
CS 399	Cooperative Professional Experience
CS 401/501	Programming for Data Science (+ 1hr 401L)	Y/D	Y		May, Exoo	Python, R
CS 417	Machine Learning		Y			Python, R
CS 420/520	Theory of Computation				Kinne, Exoo	(python/sage optional)
CS 421/521	Formal Methods				Abhyankar	ACL2, Clausal Logic, Haskell, Prolog
CS 440/540	Graphics Programming				Exoo, Kinne	C/C++
CS 452/552	Software Engineering				Abhyankar	UML, C++/Java
CS 456/556	Systems Programming (+ 1hr 456L)		Y		Baker, Exoo	C/C++, assembly
CS 457/557	Database Systems (+ 1hr 457L)		Y		Exoo, Schotter, Kinne	SQL, some noSQL, some high level
CS 458/558	Algorithms (+ 1hr 458L)		Y		Kinne, Exoo, Rafiey	C/C++
CS 459/559	Topics in Computer Science (1-3 hrs)			Y	Abhyankar, Exoo (data science), Kinne (R, BD4ISU), Abhyankar (CSS 211), Schotter (Python)
CS 469/569	Unix/Linux Administration and Networking		Y		Baker	C/C++/Bash
CS 470/570	Programming Languages	Y			Abhyankar	Prolog, Haskell, Smalltalk/Squeak
CS 471/571	Operating Systems	Y			Baker, Kinne, Exoo	C/C++
CS 473/573	Computer Networks	Y			Baker, Exoo, Kinne	C/C++
CS 475/575	Artificial Intelligence		Y		Abhyankar, Exoo, Baker, Kinne	C/C++
CS 479/579	Web Programming II	Y			Baker, Exoo	php, SQL, XML, javascript, SPARQL
CS 499	Senior Seminar (2 hr)	Y	Y		Baker, Kinne
CS 500	Programming Fundamentals	Y/D	Y		Sternfeld, Basavaraj, Exoo, Kinne, model	C/C++
CS 510	Introduction to CS and Programming	Y	Y		model	Python
CS 551	Computer Architecture				Abhyankar	assembly
CS 600	Concrete Mathematics	Y			Zhao, Egri, model
CS 601	Machine Learning		Y		Exoo	Python, R
CS 602	Mobile and Cloud Computing		odd		Abhyankar, model
CS 603	Networking and Security	odd			Abhyankar, Kinne, model	C/C++
CS 609	Web Programming and Applications		Y		Sternfeld, Kinne, model	html/css/javascript/php/SQL
CS 610	Survey of Programming Languages		even		Abhyankar, model
CS 611	Software Specification and Design	even			[1], model	VDM-SL
CS 617	Data Mining	Y			Exoo, Kinne	python, R, sql, noSQL, tensorFlow
CS 618	Computational Biology		even		Kinne, Rafiey, model	Python
CS 619	Trends in Computer Science		even		model
CS 620	Theory of Computation II	even			Kinne
CS 621	Discrete Structures II				Rafiey
CS 650	Topics in Computer Science
CS 652	Software Engineering II					Eiffel, Ruby, C++
CS 658	Algorithms II	odd			Rafiey, Exoo, Kinne
CS 670	Concurrent Programming		odd		Exoo, Kinne	C/C++
CS 671	Operating Systems II	odd			Kinne	C/C++
CS 673	Networking II	even			Exoo, model	C/C++
CS 680	Readings in Computer Science
CS 685	Software Project (3-6 hrs)	Y	Y
CS 695	Computer Science Research (3-6 hrs)	Y	Y		Exoo, Kinne	LaTeX
CS 699	Computer Science Internship (0-3 hrs)	Y	Y		Kinne, model

Normal Content

For each course, the most recent syllabus linked above is the best place to see what is currently in the course. You can also check these...

• CS Courses Normal Content (possibly outdated)
• Partial mapping of ACM/IEEE learning outcomes to ISU CS courses - ACM/IEEE (possibly outdated)