Page 67 of Saint Anselm 2006 - 2007 Catalog by Saint Anselm College Manchester New Hampshire

66 Courses of Instruction Computer Science 311 Theory of Computation A comparison of abstract machines and their physical counterparts, finite state machines, neural networks, regular expressions, Turing machines, the concept of computability and the relationship to machines, digital computers and universal machines. Mathematical proofs are an integral part of the course. Prerequisite: CS116 or permission of the instructor 325 Operating Systems An operating system is a manager of computer resources, including the memory, the processor, the I/O devices, and the information. Topics considered include partitioned memory, paged memory, segmented memory, job scheduling, processor scheduling, traffic controllers, I/O schedulers, shared devices and virtual devices, interrupt handling and resource protection. Prerequisite: CS220 338 Internet and Web-Based Systems The course provides overviews of the basic understanding and knowledge of how the Internet and the Worldwide Web operate, and the technical knowledge required to establish and maintain an Internet/Web site. Further, we look at the various (technical and non-technical) directions the Internet/Web is taking, and its increasing influence on our day-to-day lives. Students will be given a series of projects that apply the overviews into practice. Prerequisite: CS213 343 Programming Paradigms A study of the features of programming languages: syntax, semantics, control structures, study of types, subprograms, parameters and passing mechanisms, design issues for languages, and an introduction to classification of languages e.g., functional, procedural, object-oriented, etc. Prerequisite: CS112 355 Computer Graphics An introduction to the computational concepts that generate graphics and animations with a computing system. This introduction surveys the Computer Graphics sub-field of Computer Science. This introductory survey includes the hardware, software, computer languages, and mathematical tools used in the construction of graphic images on a computer screen. Selected topics include graphics data structures and modeling, 2-D and 3-D mathematical tools for modeling and viewing graphic components, hidden line and hidden surface removal, and generating 3-D models for use on the Internet. Prerequisite: CS213 or permission of the instructor

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