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

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.

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