Welcome to Jerry's Computer Science Page

 

Attention! I have brand new unopened books for CS 202, Cobol Programming. I registered for the course, but dropped in order to focus on the Systems Programming Track. Contact me at J-Walker1@neiu.edu to buy them.

 

Attention!: I highly recommend to all Computer Science students to pursue a Computer Science internship as soon as they become or even realize that they wish to become Computer Science students. Students should do so even in the event that the internship would be one of the variety that alternates semesters of school work with semesters out of school being employed full-time in the internship. Even if the internship doesn’t pay a salary, it could be the difference between working in the Information Technology (IT) industry and not working in IT upon graduation. Employers in today’s IT workplace want experience. It is extremely difficult to find an IT job without experience. An IT internship would greatly improve a student’s employability upon graduation if that student doesn’t already have IT work experience.

 

 

I started studying at NEIU in January of 2002. I declared the Computer Science Major. Within the Computer Science Major, I declared the Systems Programming Track. I believe it was referred to in the NEIU catalog as “Emphasis II” and/or “Track II”. This track is no longer offered to new Computer Science students at NEIU. I believe that the school offers a program that resembles it in a current form known as the “Technical Programming” degree.

 

My interests lie in the varied disciplines of Metrology, foreign language study and instruction, and TESL, which is basically the teaching of English as a foreign language. My intention is to apply my Computer Science degree to one of more of these disciplines in a professional capacity someday.

 

My Computer Science academic history at Northeastern Illinois University:

 

CS 200 Programming I (C++)

CS 201 Discrete Structures (Discrete Mathematics)

CS 207 Programming II (C++)

CS 305 Computer Logic and Circuitry (Computer Circuitry Design)

CS 301 Computer Organization with Assembly Language Programming

CS 304 Data Structures (C++)

CS 308 Operating Systems (including an overview of Unix)

CS 331 Computer Networks

CS 324 Introduction to the Design of Algorithms

CS 330 Telecommunications

CS 315 Modern Database Management

CS 302 Systems Programming (using C++ and a simulator assembly language)

 

In addition, I have a Computer Information Systems (CIS) and Information Technology (IT) academic history at Wilbur Wright College:

 

CIS 101 Introduction to Computer Information Systems

 

CIS 120 Introduction to Microcomputers

(Detailed introductory study and work with Word, Access, Powerpoint, Excel, HTML)

 

CIS 123 Introduction to Spreadsheets on Microcomputers

(Indepth study and work with Excel)

 

IT 144 Java Programming (In Progress)

 

Parenthesized text above consists of comments giving a brief description of course content, purview, etc.

 

 

Current Target: Master of Management Information Systems (MMIS) at Georgia College & State University beginning Summer or Fall 2005

 

 

I have a mentor in the IT industry who has been helping me increase my knowledge of Computer Science and Information Technology.

 

My Mentor: Bill Slater

 

Thanks Bill!

 

 

 

mailto:J-Walker1@neiu.edu

 

This Page was Created:  Saturday, October 12, 2002

This Page Last Updated: Wednesday, February 23, 2005