SEG 2106 Software Construction

3 units
Software Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
General principles and techniques for disciplined low-level software design. BNF and basic theory of grammars and parsing. Use of parser generators. Basics of language and protocol design. Formal languages. State-transition and table-based software design. Formal methods for software construction. Techniques for handling concurrency and inter-process communication. Tools for model-driven construction. Introduction to Middleware. Hot-spot analysis and performance tuning.

Components:

Laboratory
Lecture

Requirements:

Prerequisites: CSI 2110 , SEG 2105 .

Previously Offered Terms:

Winter

French Equivalent:

Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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