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Note: This repository is archived and read-only. It serves as a historical record of coursework completed between 2014-2018.

📚 34 courses · 📝 147 assignments · 📄 1,113 pages · 💻 9 languages · 🎓 BS/MS Computer Science

Four years of computer science education distilled into one repository. From writing “Hello World” to implementing chess AIs—this is the complete journey through Missouri S&T’s CS curriculum.

Notes

Four years of LaTeX-typeset coursework — math, diagrams, and code rendered properly. Available in four cuts:

Coursework

Foundational

• CS 1001 Data Structures Lab Practical lab for CS 1510. C++, shell, LaTeX, Qt.
• CS 1200 Discrete Mathematics Formal logic, set theory, proof techniques, induction, combinatorics, probability, relations, functions, matrices, graph theory.
• CS 1510 Data Structures Lists, trees, heaps, hash tables, graphs.
• CS 1570 Introduction to Programming Object-oriented design in C++. Syntax, operators, control flow, memory management, functions, file I/O, arrays, pointers, classes, templates, inheritance, polymorphism, exceptions.
• CS 1580 Introduction to Programming Lab Practical lab for CS 1570. Debugging and testing.
• CS 2200 Theory of Computer Science Computability, regular and context-free languages, recursively enumerable languages, P, NP, NP-completeness.
• CS 2300 Databases Disk organization, index structures, B-trees, hash tables, ER models, relational models, relational algebra, SQL.
• CS 2500 Algorithms Recurrence relations, algorithm analysis, dynamic programming, greedy methods, shortest-path, spanning trees, maximum flow.

Systems & Software

• CS 3001 Professional Skills Development Technical presentations.
• CS 3100 Software Engineering I Software lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, management, testing.
• CS 3200 Numerical Methods Finite difference interpolation, numerical differentiation/integration, linear systems, nonlinear equations, differential equations.
• CS 3500 Programming Languages and Translators Compiler/interpreter design. Syntax, variables, expressions, types, scope, functions.
• CS 3800 Operating Systems Concepts, structure, mechanisms. Processes, concurrency, memory management, scheduling. Unix emphasis.
• CpE 3150 Micro/Embedded Design Machine organization, interface design, C and assembly programming, real-time embedded systems.
• CS 4096 Software Systems Development Teams prototype, deploy, and maintain software systems.
• CS 4099 Undergraduate Research Control flow graph analysis.

Graduate

• CS 5200 Analysis of Algorithms Algorithm analysis techniques applied to sorting, backtracking, graph algorithms.
• CS 5201 Object-Oriented Numerical Modeling Object-oriented modeling for scientific applications. Class library development for mechanics and engineering.
• CS 5400 Artificial Intelligence Search, heuristics, game trees, knowledge representation, reasoning, computational intelligence, machine learning.
• CS 5401 Evolutionary Computing Evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, fitness functions, selection strategies, mutation, recombination.
• CS 5402 Data Mining Classification, clustering, association analysis, data preprocessing, outlier detection.

Math & Statistics

• Math 1214 Calculus I Limits, derivatives, integration.
• Math 1215 Calculus II Integration techniques, sequences, series.
• Math 2100 Foundations of Mathematics Proof techniques.
• Math 2222 Calculus III Multivariable calculus, partial derivatives, multiple integrals.
• Math 3304 Differential Equations First-order and higher-order linear ODEs, Laplace transform, systems of linear equations, physical applications.
• Stat 3117 Statistics Probability, distribution theory, statistical inference. Applications to physical and engineering sciences.

Physics & Engineering

• CpE 2210 Introduction to Computer Engineering Binary numbers, truth tables, Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, combinational/sequential logic, CMOS, programmable logic devices.
• Phys 1135 Physics I Mechanics: kinematics, dynamics, statics, energetics.
• Phys 2135 Physics II Electricity, magnetism, light.
• Phys 2311 Modern Physics I An introduction to quantum mechanics, atomic physics, and solid state physics. Topics include historically important experiments and interpretations.

Humanities

• Phil 3225 Business Ethics Ethical frameworks in business contexts.
• Psyc 1101 Psychology 101 Psychological principles and behavior.

Teaching

• CS 1570 Lab Assignments (Lab 08, Lab 15)
• CS 1570 Modern C++ Lecture (C++11/14 Features)
• Missouri S&T Satellite Team Git Tutorial
• ACM iOS Development With Swift 4 Presentation

Side Projects

• bolt — iOS timer app with minimalist design
• clc-tally — iOS app for tracking student headcounts at the Computer Learning Center

Technologies

Tools: Make, CMake, Git, LaTeX, Doxygen, Xcode, Flex/Bison

Repository Structure

src/           Course directories (cs1570-intro-to-programming, etc.)
latex/         LaTeX notes and teaching materials
review/        Course evaluation documents

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• macOS/Linux (tested on macOS)
• g++ or clang++ with C++17 support
• make
• python3 and pip (for AI/data mining courses)
• Optional: brew install boost (for cs4099 research project)

Build & Run

The repository has a unified build system. From the src/ directory:

cd src

# Show all available commands
make help

# Install dependencies (boost, progressbar2)
make install

# Build all courses
make build-all

# Build a specific course
make cs5400-build

# Run targets in a course
make cs5400-run

For individual projects, you can also build directly:

cd src/cs5400-artificial-intelligence/puzzle-series/2018-sp-a-puzzle_1-isgx2
make
make run

Contributors

• Tim Ott
• Ian Howell
• Claire Trebing
• Zachary Wileman
• Michael Schoen
• Abdirahman Ahmed Osman
• Adam Evans
• Eric Michalak
• Michael Harrington
• Deacon Seals
• Luke Parton
• Hunter Mathews
• William Thurman