Technology, Information, Theory & Systems

The Department of Computer Science is located at Hunter's 68th street campus on the upper east side of Manhattan. Providing students with outstanding preparation both for employment as computer professionals and for future graduate study, the department expects students to construct creative solutions to challenging problems in a variety of contexts. The small but diverse faculty works closely with students in an open and collegial atmosphere. Our curriculum focuses on hands-on programming skills as well as the mathematics of computer science— the theoretical foundations that support current technology and will guide its future development. Learn More...

Important Announcements

WINTER SESSION 2010 BEGINS JANUARY 4, 2010:  Back by popular demand -- CSCI 394.51 Programming in Python, Perl and PHP.

This course serves as an intensive introduction to three popular dynamic programming languages: PHP, Perl, and Python. The similarities among the languages will be highlighted, in order to get students up-to-speed and writing code as quickly as possible. Each language's strengths and weaknesses will be discussed as well, and students will be introduced to a number of frameworks and libraries that make working with each language worthwhile. At the end of the course, students will have a basic literacy in each language's syntax and in the resources they'll need to continue their studies. Topics will include object-oriented programming, regular expressions, programming for the web, and functional programming techniques.  Read more about it.

Learning Goals for Computer Science Students:

Hunter College has asked each department to develop a plan for assessing how well it does in teaching its majors.  More.

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