Phillip Wright

Adjunct Professor
Computer Science and Information Systems
Murray State University
Email: pwright4@figure it out.edu
Twitter: @msupwright4
UHF: 443.800/448.800 (91.5Hz)

Teaching

Current Semester

Software Construction

CSC 430 Fall 2024 online

This course is a survey of professional software development tools and practices. Topics include agile development methods, version control, test driven development, unit testing, system testing, continuous integration, bug tracking, software design patterns, documentation, and code quality. Students will complete both individual and team programming projects.

Upcoming Semesters

Software Construction

CSC 430 ??? online

This course is a survey of professional software development tools and practices. Topics include agile development methods, version control, test driven development, unit testing, system testing, continuous integration, bug tracking, software design patterns, documentation, and code quality. Students will complete both individual and team programming projects.

Inactive Courses

Programming Languages

CSC 415 XXXXX 20XX XX.XX-XX.XX Mo Tu We Th Fr

Formal definition of programming language syntax and semantics. Global properties of imperative and object-oriented languages including scope of declarations, binding times, simple data types, abstract data types, control structures, subprograms, concurrency, and exception handling. Introduction to functional and logic programming paradigms.

Mobile and Web Programming

CSC 425 XXXXX 20XX XX.XX-XX.XX Mo Tu We Th Fr

A course to emphasize the development of software applications on particular hardware platforms. Types of platforms covered include: Web platforms and mobile platforms. Course will cover currently relevant platform languages such as Java, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. For Web platforms emphasis will be on software as a service (SaaS). Issues for mobile platforms will include wireless communication and location-aware applications.

Programming in C++

CSC 235 XXXXX 20XX XX.XX-XX.XX Mo Tu We Th Fr

A course in programming in C++ using both procedural and object-oriented methods. Topics include variables; expressions; stream and file input/output; control structures; arrays; functions; pointers; records; dynamic memory management; object-oriented programming with classes; single and multiple inheritance. The course will also include an introduction to the Linux operating system.

Discrete Structures

CSC 300 XXXXX 20XX XX.XX-XX.XX Mo Tu We Th Fr

Course introduces the discrete mathematical foundations of computer science, providing the appropriate theoretical background for advanced courses. Topics include: sets, relations and functions, basic logic, proof techniques, basics of counting, graphs and trees, and discrete probability

Internet and Web Page Design

CSC 125 XXXXX 20XX XX.XX-XX.XX Mo Tu We Th Fr

Introductory course covering the Internet and web page design. The student will be introduced to Internet tools including mailers, browsers, search engines, metasearch engines, FTP clients, and the physical components of computer networks. The major part of this course will cover the fundamentals of web page design using HTML. Web page development will include the use of lists, client-side image maps, tables, frames, forms, cascading style sheets, and a web editor. An introduction to XHTML, JavaScript, and freely available HTML editors will also be included.

Scripting Languages

CSC 360 XXXXX 20XX XX.XX-XX.XX Mo Tu We Th Fr

Course is a survey of several popular scripting languages. Operating system shell languages and Perl will be discussed. The emphasis will be on applications of scripting languages to network and server administration tasks.

Publications

"Improving music genre classification using collaborative tagging data"

Ling Chen, Phillip Wright, Wolfgang Nejdl

Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)

Barcelona, Spain, February 2009