Curriculum Proposal to SCS Faculty May 2011: Difference between revisions
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Design and implementation of Internet application programs. Topics include: fundamentals of the Web, introduction to client/server architectures, Internet programming, Web browsers, hypertext links, network programming. | |||
Precludes additional credit for COMP 2005. | |||
Prerequisite: COMP 2401 and COMP 1406. | |||
Restricted to students registered in the B.C.S. program, combined Honours in Computer Science and Mathematics, Honours Computer Mathematics, and Honours Computer Statistics. | |||
Lectures three hours a week. | |||
===New course description=== | ===New course description=== | ||
Revision as of 14:21, 3 May 2011
This document contains proposed course changes for the 2012/2013 academic year.
Executive Summary
Introduction
Theory
COMP 1805: Course Title
COMP 2804: Course Title
COMP 3804: Course Title
Software Engineering
COMP 2404: Introduction to Software Engineering
Introduction to object-oriented software development, with emphasis on design and implementation of medium-sized programs. Topics include abstraction, modularity, encapsulation, reusability, and design patterns.
COMP 3004: Object-Oriented Software Engineering
No changes.
Programming
- we already changed 1405 and 1406
- goal is to teach programming through teaching other topics that are central to modern CS: OS, databases, web
COMP 2401: Introduction to Systems Programming
Introduction to programming at the system level, with procedures, primitive data types, and user-defined data structures, designed for B.C.S. students. Topics include: basic OS concepts (including processes), pointers, heap and stack memory allocation and deallocation, system/library calls, signal handling and inter-process communication.
COMP 2405: Internet Application Programming
Old course description
Design and implementation of Internet application programs. Topics include: fundamentals of the Web, introduction to client/server architectures, Internet programming, Web browsers, hypertext links, network programming.
Precludes additional credit for COMP 2005. Prerequisite: COMP 2401 and COMP 1406. Restricted to students registered in the B.C.S. program, combined Honours in Computer Science and Mathematics, Honours Computer Mathematics, and Honours Computer Statistics. Lectures three hours a week.
New course description
An introduction to the upper computational stack: language-based virtual machines, desktop environments, and web applications. Topics: dynamic libraries, scripting and functional languages, interpreters, compilation, databases, remote procedure calls, and performance and security concerns in modern distributed applications.