Computer Programming Techniques, Practices, and Tools: An introduction to programming using python. I already learned a lot about programming from my Java classes, so the class was mostly an introduction to the python programming language. My final project was using Python to perform data visualization. More details can be found on the projects page.
Database Systems and Management: An introduction to relational Database. I used Microsoft SQL Server. I learned how to pull data from a database, create tables, manipulate the data to output what I want. My final Project was to create and populate a database. More details can be found on the projects page.
Information Security Principles: An overview of computer security. I learned about the CIA, and how we ensure the three goals. I learned about the types of threats to Computers, and the common ways to prevent them. And the Standards used for Security.
Techniques of Computation: A class about algorithms. I learned about algorithms, and how they are created and used. I learned about the notation for time complexity. I used Python to define the algorithms.
Computational Mathematics: How computers do complex math. I learned how to do complicated mathematics in a computer. Like how a computer can find the roots of a line, even though it doesn't seem very possible for it to do it. I learned of many algorithms and their differences. I predominantly used MATLAB to implement the algorithms into the computer.
Introduction to Computer Networks: An introduction to the physical aspects of computer networks. I learned about the OSI model, and how data is fragmented and put back together during the travel. I learned about the different types of wires. And I learned about the routers, LANS, and other stuff.
Introduction to Software Engineering: An Introduction to Software Engineering. This class was basically software engineering with C++. I learned how to program with C++, like memory management, and pointers. I wa taught up to polymorphism.
Data Visualization: A course about visualizing data. I used the programming language R to take data, and build graphs from it. I also learned how to read and interpret the data. The Final Project was doing PCA analysis on the dataset "Iris". More details can be found on the projects page.
Introduction to HTML and CSS: An introduction to designing a website. I learned how to code in HTML and CSS. I also learned how to make a responsive web site. The final project was designing and creating a web site. More details can be found on the projects page.
Modeling and Simulation: A class dedicated to Modeling data and Simulating it. I used VBA in Excel for this class. I learned about how people create models for events, and the different types of models there are. I learned techniques for simulating data, different distributions, and manual simulations. My final project was to take data I found, model it, and then simulate it. After that, I answer some questions by changing the model some ways. More details can be found on the projects page.
Computer Graphics: This class taught me how to make images and animations only using computer code. We used OpenGL and GLUT in C++ to make 2D images, and then create animations from our images. Then we made a 3D animation as well. Though not technically a project, more details about the coursework can be found on the projects page.
High Performance Computing: This class taught me about Parallel Computing. We learned about the hardware required for parallel computing, the software required for it, and even some GPUS. We practiced paralleleizing using OpenMP and MPI.
Introduction to Data Minig: This class was an introductory class to machine learning. Here we learned about Supervised and Unsupervised learning. K-nearest neighbors, Linear and Logistic Regression, One-hot Encoding, Imputation-- and other techniques to aide in Data Mining. My final project was to participate in the Kaggle Titanic Competition. Me and a partner had to pre-process the data given to us, and then find some machine learning algorithms to get the most accurate guess. More details can be found on the projects page.
Software Testing and Verification: Or an Introduction to Web-development in Java, and Agile methodology. In this class we used JAVA, HTML, and SQL to creaet a database-driven web-app. We also learned how to use Scrum and Kanban boards, and DevOPs. My Final Project was to create and design a web-app, that has a connection to the database. Me and my Team created a Virtual Dice Roller. More details can be found on the projects page.
Introduction to Technical Writing: : An Introduction to Technical Writing. I learned how to shorten and simplify sentences, and the CARP design principles. My final project was to find a document, and re-write it to be more concise and better organized. More details can be found on the projects page.
Calculus III: I learned about Vectors, and integrals and differentials in 3D.
