WCS 201 - Scripting Fundamentals for Cybersecurity

Course unit(s): 1
This course is designed to introduce students in the cybersecurity concentration to the fundamentals of computer scripting. Through a series of modules, students will learn the importance and power of scripting in cybersecurity, develop logical thinking and problem-solving skills, understand algorithm development, work with basic data types and control structures, utilize regular expressions for textual analysis, implement input/output operations, explore simple cryptographic algorithms, and learn to identify and correct vulnerabilities in computer code. Programming languages covered in the course will be at the discretion of the instructor, focusing on languages relevant to cybersecurity tasks.