Buster Dunsmore Computer Science Professor bxd@cs.purdue.edu

Address

My Department Biography

• Department of Computer Science
• Purdue University
• 305 N. University Street
• West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2107
• Office Phone: +1 765-494-1996
• FAX: 765-494-0739

Undergraduate Curriculum Revision

Sample Plan of Study

Resumé

Teaching

• CS 177 — Programming with Multimedia Objects
• CS 180 — Introduction to Computer Science

Internet and Web Information

• HTML Guide
• Advanced HTML Guide
• JavaScript Guide

Consulting

• Consulting with attorneys concerning intellectual property (primarily Internet and software-related) litigation.
• Uses of the Internet, the World-Wide Web, and Web browsers.
• Object-oriented design and programming.
• Java, C, and C++ programming languages.
• Information Systems including Management Information Systems.

Research Interests

• How can Web technologies (HTML, XHTML, XML, Style Sheets, cgi programs, JavaScript, Java, Java servlets, scripting languages like Perl, ASP, and JSP) best be used to support Internet, Intranet, and Extranet activities?
• What are the real (measurable) advantages of the object-oriented approach? Is it any faster? (Probably not.) Is the code any easier to debug? (Maybe.) Is the code any easier to re-use? (Probably so.)
• What is the best way to teach programmers how to use the object-oriented paradigm? For that matter, how can existing professional software developers best be trained (or re-trained) to take advantage of the object-oriented approach? Should we start with functional programming, then add abstract data types, and finally introduce classes, methods, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism?

(This page last modified August 05, 2011)