Jonathan Mann
Program Summary
This course provides the tools needed to be admitted into select graduate-level programs at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and our partner schools.
Outcomes/Objectives
Recipients of the NYU Tandon Bridge Certificate demonstrate the ability to:
Basic understanding of how data is represented and how computers execute instructions to use and modify data in order to solve problems.
Understanding of computational thinking: how to develop algorithms using decisions, repetition, and decomposition into manageable components to solve problems.
Ability to implement and test moderate sized programs in C++, using constructs including variables, operators, decision statements, loops, functions, and built-in datatypes.
Ability to understand basic object-oriented programming concepts.
Ability to code, use, analyze the performance of, and modify fundamental data structures.
Have a firm understanding of operating systems topics related to processes, threads, thread concurrency, deadlocks, and memory management.
Understanding of fundamental concepts in discrete math.
Deliverable
The deliverables include:
Weekly homework assignments
Exams
Program Duration
21-28 weeks
Skills / Knowledge
- Computer Programming Fundamentals
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Discrete Mathematics
- Calculus and Linear Algebra
- Problem-Solving in Engineering Contexts