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Programming Language Track

Objectives

The track is designed to prepare students to work in fields related to program understanding, analysis, manipulation and transformation.  This includes run-time system engineering as well as domain specific techniques (e.g., real-time computing or web programming). They will acquire tools and techniques needed to specify and implement language-based solutions.

All major required courses, all track requirements and track selectives, and their pre-requisites, regardless of department, must be completed with a grade of C or better.

Required Courses (3)
Course Title
CS 35200 Compilers: Principles and Practice
CS 35400 Operating Systems
CS 45600 Programming Languages

 

Electives (3)
Course Title

CS 30700

or

CS 40800

Software Engineering I

 

Software Testing

CS 34800

or

CS 44800

Information Systems

 

Introduction to Relational Database Systems

CS 35300 Principles of Concurrency & Parallelism
CS 38100 Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms
CS 42600 Computer Security
CS 48300 Introduction to the Theory of Computation
CS 56000 Reasoning About Programs

MA 38500

or

MA 45300

Introduction to Logic

 

Elements of Algebra I

Note: When an A or B choice is listed, only one of A and B can be used to satisfy the elective requirement.

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