Systems Programming Track - Prior to Fall 2019

Objectives

The track is designed to prepare students to become programmers who can build

• low-level software that uses or runs inside an operating system,
• system tools for other users (e.g., compilers and assemblers),
• programs that communicate over a computer network or the Internet (e.g., web servers).

Required Courses

All track requirements, regardless of department, must be completed with a grade of C or higher.

The track has three required courses that provide general background

Course	Title
CS 35200	Compilers: Principles and Practice
CS 35400	Operating Systems
CS 42200	Computer Networks

Systems Programming Track Pre-requisite Flowchart (PDF)

 

Electives

The track has three electives, chosen from the list below.  It is strongly recommended that students select a senior project course as one of the electives.

Course	Title
CS 30700	Software Engineering I
CS 33400	Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
CS 35300	Principles of Concurrency and Parallelism
CS 38100	Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms
CS 42600	Computer Security
CS 44800	Introduction to Relational Database Systems
CS 45600	Programming Languages
	Senior Project approved by faculty (Example: EPCS 411 EPICS design)
CS 48900	Embedded Systems
CS 49000 DS0	Distributed Systems

The Software Engineering Senior Project cannot be used as the Systems research project unless track chair approval from both track chairs is obtained.