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Computer Information Systems (CIS)

Recommended resources for CIS majors

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Featured E-Books for CIS

Programming with GitHub Copilot

Hands-on exploration of GitHub's new AI coding assistant, Copilot. Learn how to install, configure, and use the software, from employing its most common and widely used features to deploying business and enterprise functionality. Discover how to fix runtime and compilation bugs and write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests. Learn prompt strategies to help you brainstorm new code solutions.

Simple Object Oriented Design

Write object-oriented code that's manageable and maintainable, without slowing feature delivery to a crawl.

Modern Oracle Database Programming

Discover built-in functionality that can save you massive amounts of time. Learn features in SQL and PL/SQL that are underused and not well known.

Information Systems

Based on the author's real-world experience. This is the book the author--and, more importantly, his students--wishes he had when he started teaching. Dr. Mallach holds degrees in engineering from Princeton and MIT and in business from Boston University, and he worked in the computer industry for two decades.

How JavaScript Works

Comprehensive introduction to JavaScript, from how it works at a technical level to how it is used to create websites and applications. You'll learn how to use JavaScript with HTML and CSS to construct web pages and applications.

97 Things about Ethics Everyone in Data Science Should Know

In this in-depth book, contributors from top companies in technology, finance, and other industries share experiences and lessons learned from collecting, managing, and analyzing data ethically.

Learning Google Analytics

A concise and comprehensive overview of GA4 and its cloud integrations, with topics including data architecture and strategy, and data ingestion, storage, and modeling. Explore common use cases and how to adapt them to fit your business needs.

Mobile App Development for Businesses

Step-by-step guide through the process of building mobile apps.

IT Audit Field Manual

Master effective IT auditing techniques, from security control reviews to advanced cybersecurity practices. Serving as a roadmap for beginners as well as experienced professionals, this manual guides you from foundational concepts and audit planning to in-depth explorations of auditing various IT systems and networks, including Cisco devices, next-generation firewalls, cloud environments, endpoint security, and Linux systems.

Fundamentals of Machine Learning

A brief introduction exploring machine learning in a range of disciplines and its broader impact on our society.

Shields Up: Cybersecurity Project Management

Combines global frameworks already followed by cybersecurity professionals leading to successful projects.

10 Machine Learning Blueprints You Should Know for Cybersecurity

Features 10 practical projects, each with a blueprint for a different machine learning technique, and apply them in the real world to fight against cybercrime.

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Cite Your Sources!

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When creating your project, remember to cite everything you did not write / create / think up on your own, including images / graphs / charts / maps / datasets you borrow from online sources. Below are some tools to help you cite your sources correctly.

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