AA/AS in Computer Science

The Computer Science associate degree teaches students how to plan and write the software that gives machines their apparent intelligence. Computing now reaches into nearly every part of daily life, from payment terminals to the monitors inside vehicles, and the department prepares students to build such systems. Classes start at the beginner level and progress to advanced material. They are meant to support several goals at once: a well-rounded education, preparation for transfer, and job training. Students learn to turn problems into step-by-step procedures, write programs with branching and repetition, use structures like lists and queues, apply object-oriented design, and work in modern development tools. They also explain how a computer is put together, and they test the programs they deliver.