Systems Software Track

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).

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 42200	Computer Networks

The track requires three electives, chosen from the list below. In addition to elective courses listed, other courses, including project and independent study courses, will be approved as electives, provided the course involves systems programming (as opposed to web page scripting, or other high-level application programming). Faculty strongly recommend that students include a senior project as one of the three electives.

Electives (3)

Course	Title
CS 30700	Software Engineering I
CS 31100 and CS 41100	Competitive Programming 2 and 3 The combination of (CS31100 and CS41100) satisfy one elective
CS 33400	Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
CS 35100	Introduction to Cloud Computing
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
CS 48900	Embedded Systems
CS 49000-DS0	Distributed Systems
CS 49000-VR	Introduction to VR/AR
Senior Project	Track Chair approval needed

Note: Senior Project must be at least 3 credits and approved by the track chair. (Examples: EPICS 41100/41200 Senior Design, CS 49000, CS 49700 Honors Research Project)

Note: The Software Engineering Senior Project cannot be used as the Systems Software Senior Project unless student obtains approval from BOTH track chairs.