introduces students to basic programming in the context of numerical methods with the goal of providing the foundation necessary to handle larger scientific programming projects. Numerical methods to solve selected problems from Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics will be covered.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratory: Two hours per week.

Prerequisite: Mathematics 1000.

- inactive course.

lays the foundation for the art and the science of computing. The course contains fundamental and topical issues in computers, languages, programming and applications. This course is designed for potential Computer Science majors without a background in programming, but is also available for non majors.

Prerequisite/Co-requisite: Mathematics 1090 (or equivalent), or Mathematics 1000.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratory: Three hours per week.

is an introduction to fundamental programming techniques, primitive data types and operations, program control structures and the use of objects, classes and methods.

Prerequisites: Mathematics 1000 (which can be taken concurrently), or Mathematics 1090 (or equivalent).

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratory: Three hours per week.

introduces the use of scripting languages to solve common data analysis tasks. The control structures and expressions of the language are first discussed. Script solution to storing/retrieving data sets, searching data sets, and performing numeric and statistical calculation are covered. Plotting and visualization for data sets are also presented.

Prerequisite: COMP 1510 or COMP 1700 or COMP 1710 or COMP 2602 (or equivalent).

is a study of algorithmic problem solving and structured programming techniques; the Fortran programming language and its application to computer solutions of scientific problems; numeric and non-numeric problems are examined with emphasis on code modularity and reusability of the components.

Prerequisite: Mathematics 1000.

is an overview of tools and techniques that current computer technology offers in a PC based networked environment. The emphases are on conceptual understanding of the software, from exploring capabilities of the existing software tools to learning methods of extending these capabilities. The key topics include problem-solving strategies, visual programming, macro-language operations, object linking and embedding, digital communication, and developing interactive web pages. The course has a practical flavour. In structured laboratory sessions, students gain proficiency in using personal computers for solving common problems.

Prerequisite: Level III Advanced Mathematics or Mathematics 1000 (which can be taken concurrently) or Mathematics 1090 (or equivalent).

continues from Object-Oriented Programming I, and studies object-oriented and event-driven programming. Additional topics include: recursion, basic analysis of algorithms, fundamental data structures such as simple linked structures and stacks, and fundamental computing algorithms such as binary search and quadratic time sorting. A brief overview of programming languages, virtual machines and language translations is also provided.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratory: Three hours per week.

Prerequisite: COMP 1710.

includes the study of standard ways of organizing and manipulating data in computer storage. Fundamental concepts in the design and analysis of algorithms are also discussed.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Laboratory: Three hours per week.

Prerequisite: COMP 2710.

is an introduction to propositional and predicate logic with applications. The use of the system of boolean logic in reasoning and circuit design, as well as basic proof techniques and the resolution principle, for both propositional and predicate logic, will be covered. Concepts involving sets will be used to illustrate different types of proof techniques. The probable intractability of boolean logic and Goedel's incompleteness theorem will be presented.

Prerequisite: COMP 1710.

- inactive course.

examines social, ethical, legal and cultural issues surrounding the use of computers in modern society. These broader social issues are followed by an examination of the use of social and individual psychology in user interface design. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of these issues both directly (through verbal and written discourse) and practically, as applied to the creation of actual software artifacts.

Prerequisites: Two 1000-level English courses, or equivalent.

Co-requisite: COMP 2710.

introduces students to computer applications in business, document processing, application development, decision support, and information management. A three hour laboratory is required.

Prerequisite: Level III Advanced Mathematics or Mathematics 1000 (which can be taken concurrently) or Mathematics 1090 (or equivalent).

is a course for students who are admitted to CIIO. Students are required to register for this non-credit course every semester during their internship. This course is open only to students who have been accepted into the Internship Program and provides an opportunity for qualified students to obtain rewarding job experience of 8, 12 or 16 months of continuous duration, during the course of their studies.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Computer Industry Internship Option (CIIO).

is a study of several programming languages of vocational significance (e.g. a selection from C, C++, Prolog, Perl, Python and LISP). The use of appropriate programming paradigms to solve some significant problems.

Prerequisite: COMP 2711.

reviews typical elements of (imperative) programming languages, and then discusses language implementations in the form of compilers and interpreters. The topics include specification of syntax and semantics of programming languages, discussion of expressions and assignments, side effects, control structures, data and procedural abstractions, parameter passing mechanisms, bindings, scopes, and type systems. The recursive-descent technique is used for illustrations of different aspects of syntax analysis, code generation and error recovery. Language interpreters are discussed for both low-level and high-level languages.

Prerequisites: COMP 3719 and 3724.

studies how distributed applications (e.g., client/server Web applications) are constructed using the Internet. Topics covered include: the socket interface for network communication, client/server applications, browser scripting using Javascript, content generation for web applications (e.g., jsp, php), html/css documents, and the use of cryptography to handle security.

Prerequisite: COMP 2711.

studies the development of software by gathering the requirements of the software program, analysing the requirements to create a development model, and creating the software and documents for the software product. This course studies techniques for all three software development activities.

Prerequisite: COMP 2711.

- inactive course.

demonstrates the tools and techniques used in the construction of small software systems. The software tools and techniques to be covered include analysis and design of software components, software construction tools (e.g. linkers, builders, debuggers), software library use and design, and system integration.

Prerequisites: COMP 2711 and Pure Mathematics 2320.

is an introduction to formal algorithmic problem solving. Various algorithm design techniques that sometimes yield efficient solutions are studied. Deterministic and nondeterministic machines (finite state automata, pushdown automata and Turing machines) are discussed and used to efficiently solve problems such as the String Matching Problem, the parsing of Context-free Languages, and to introduce the theory of NP-completeness. In addition, Turing machines are used to prove the unsolvability of certain problems. Tractable, intractable and undecidable problems are contrasted. Basic issues related to parallelization are discussed as well.

Prerequisites: COMP 2711 and Pure Mathematics 2320.

- inactive course.

can be studied at the digital logic implementation level, the instruction set architecture level, and the translation of programming languages to the underlying machine instruction level. This course studies computer organization at these levels.

Prerequisites: COMP 2711 and COMP 2742.

Co-requisite: Pure Mathematics 2320.

covers system design and the architectural implementations of these designs. The objective is to develop the basic concepts of processor design, memory management, operating systems, and I/O devices and their interactions.

Prerequisite: COMP 3724.

main objectives are the development of algorithms for the numerical solution of mathematical problems and the study of the numerical stability of these algorithms. The efficiency of these algorithms with respect to speed and storage requirements is considered as well. Emphasis is also placed on the study of the sensitivity of selected problems to perturbations in the data. There is also a brief introduction to the development of numerical algorithms that take advantage of advanced computer architectures, such as pipeline processors, array processors and parallel processors.

Prerequisites: Mathematics 2000 and Mathematics 2050, and one of COMP 2602 or COMP 2710.

- inactive course.

is an introduction to the Linear Programming Problem (LPP). The emphasis is placed upon developing the most recent and numerically reliable algorithms for the solution of the Linear Programming Problem. The numerical stability of these algorithms will be examined as well. Geometric understanding of the LPP. Simplex method for the LPP. Sparse matrix LPP. Duality and postoptimality analysis. Extensions to the simplex algorithm. Principles of interior algorithms for the LPP.

Prerequisite: Mathematics 2050, and one of COMP 2602 or 2710.

introduces students to application areas that are away from usual number-based and text-based processing. Students will learn the basic concepts and become aware of the historical developments and social and ethical issues related to the application areas such as intelligent systems and information management. This exposure will help students to become knowledgeable about managing large volumes of data and dealing with problems that are well defined but whose algorithmic solutions are not feasible or problems that are fuzzily defined.

Prerequisites: COMP 2711 and COMP 2742.

- inactive course.

covers programming language design considerations; syntactic and semantic structure; survey of typical features and operations; analysis of facilities for control and data structuring; language extensibility; execution models; formal specification of programming languages.

Prerequisites: COMP 3719 and COMP 3724.

studies properties of formal grammars and languages; syntax-directed parsing and code generation; top-down and bottom-up parsing methods; LL(k) and LR(k) grammars and parsers; Code optimization; compiler writing tools.

Prerequisites: COMP 3719 and COMP 3724.

surveys the major topics of software engineering. Areas covered include: requirements capture, system design and design approaches, verification and validation (including formal methods and testing), and management of the software development process.

Prerequisite: COMP 3716.

- inactive course.

studies the design and implementation of an operating system’s kernel. The main components used in operating system implementations include: context switches, process management, memory management, interprocess communication, file systems and system calls. The data structures and algorithms used in implementing the above components are studied. The different architectural styles of kernel implementation are also considered. Real-time operating systems are also discussed.

Prerequisite: COMP 3725.

examines the architecture and instruction sets for several microprocessors. The use of microprocessors as device controllers; comparisons of hardware and programmed techniques; microprocessor interfacing with external devices; methods of I/O; bus structures; modern microprocessor support devices are discussed.

Prerequisite: COMP 3724.

Lecture: Three hours per week.

Laboratory: Minimum of three hours per week. Practical experience with basic principles will be obtained through laboratory experience.

(same as Engineering 8863) - inactive course.

is an introduction to linear algebra; solution to linear systems; scaling, improving and estimating accuracy; the linear least squares problem; the eigenvalue problem; singular value decomposition of a matrix; the generalized eigenvalue problem.

Prerequisite: COMP 3731.

- inactive course.

will give an overview of techniques for the design of efficient optimal-solution and heuristic algorithms. It will include an introduction to various advanced data structures for set and string processing that are used to further optimize algorithm efficiency.

Prerequisite: COMP 3719.

is an in-depth study of various types of formal machines and their associated languages. Effective computability and other formalisms, such as lambda calculus will be studied as well.

Prerequisite: COMP 3719.

is an in-depth discussion of computational complexity theory. Topics covered in the course include: models of computation (for both serial and parallel computations); complexity measures; reducibility; complexity classes (NP, PSPACE, NC, LOGSPACE and P); and randomized computations.

Prerequisite: COMP 3719.

discusses classical problems in combinatorial optimization and graph algorithms, including matching, colorability, independent sets, isomorphism, network flows and scheduling. Special families of graphs are discussed and algorithms that would otherwise be NP-hard or complete are shown to be polynomial time when restricted to such families.

Prerequisite: COMP 3719.

is an exploration of the use of computers in the simulation of complex systems. Some theories and models, such as cellular automata, artificial life, fractals, genetic algorithms, chaos, and evolution will be discussed and will be used in the modelling of "real-life" systems. The approach in this course is practical. Students have to write a number of programs of different levels of sophistication including a final project.

Prerequisite: COMP 3719.

examines display devices, display processors, display file compilers, display transformations, structured display files, graphical input devices, perspective, hidden line elimination, languages and graphics systems.

In addition to three one-hour lectures, there will be a minimum three hour laboratory per week, to be scheduled by the Department.

Prerequisites: COMP 3719 and Mathematics 2050.

provides an introduction to four of the fundamental computational intelligence methods: artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence and fuzzy systems. The integration of these techniques for problem solving will also be introduced.

Lectures: Three hours per week.

Prerequisites: COMP 3719 and COMP 3754.

has selected topics from AI programming languages; heuristic searching; problem solving; game-playing; knowledge representations; knowledge-based systems; reasoning in uncertainty situations; planning; natural language understanding; pattern recognition; computer vision; and machine learning.

Prerequisites: COMP 3719 and 3754.

introduces students to database processing, database management systems and database design considerations. It will cover the theory and methodologies essential for the relational database design, implementation, manipulation, optimization and management.

Prerequisites: COMP 3725 and 3754.

will centre on the key analytical and algorithmic tools and concepts of digital image processing. Topics will include Transformations, Enhancement, Encoding, Data Bases, Segmentation and Description.

In addition to three one-hour lectures, there will be a three hour laboratory per week, to be scheduled by the Department.

Prerequisite: COMP 3719.

looks at how the operation of computer networks requires the following: a) communication between two computers, b) information transfer between two computers not directly connected, and c) services that need computer communication. This course focuses on the standard solutions and services used to fulfill the previous requirements. These include: physical transmission of signals, reliable communication based on unreliable communication channels, the routing of messages between connected computers to reach computers that are not directly connected, e-mail, file transfer, name servers, remote terminal access and the World Wide Web. Particular attention will be placed on the workings of the Internet.

Prerequisites: COMP 3715 and COMP 3725.

emphasizes user-interface design, distinguishing usability research from testing. Students identify usability issues, and then prototype and analyse their own solutions. Representative methods, techniques and tools related to design, testing and research are discussed. Specific topics may include: environments and toolkits, task analysis, user modelling, user psychology, qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

Prerequisites: COMP 2760 and 3719 and Statistics 2510.

will give an overview of computational problems and algorithms for these problems associated with a variety of analyses of biological molecular data.

Prerequisite: COMP 3719.

examines the fundamental constraints, technologies, and algorithms of autonomous robotics. The focus of this course will be on computational aspects of autonomous wheeled mobile robots. The following topics will be covered: major paradigms in robotics, methods of locomotion, kinematics, simple control systems, sensor technologies, stereo vision, feature extraction, modelling uncertainty of sensors and positional information, localization, SLAM, obstacle avoidance, and 2-D path planning.

Prerequisites: COMP 2711, Mathematics 2000, Mathematics 2050, and Statistics 2510.

focuses on the design and implementation of interactive visualization techniques for the analysis, comprehension, exploration, and explanation of large collections of abstract information. Topics to be covered include principles of visual perception, information data types, visual encodings of data, representation of relationships, interaction methods, understanding user goals and tasks, and evaluation techniques. Case studies of accepted techniques and the current state-of-the-art in information visualization will be presented.

Prerequisites: COMP 2760 and COMP 3719.

has as its main objective to develop a working prototype of a software system as a team effort. A group of students will work on a project for a term, experiencing the advantages and difficulties of team projects.

Prerequisite: COMP 3716, COMP 3724, COMP 3754, and one other 3000-level course, preferably COMP 3715.

introduces computer science honours students to research activities, familiarizes them with a special problem in computer science, and provides independent study on an advanced topic under the direct supervision of a member of the computer science faculty. The topic is decided in consultation with the supervisor. The student is required to produce a written report on the project, to include the literature search on the topic, and to present this work at a departmental seminar prior to the last week of the semester.

Prerequisite: Consent of the Head of Department.

will be offered as departmental resources permit.

Prerequisites/Co-requisites: Special topics courses are not offered on a regular basis, but whenever departmental resources permit. For these reasons, the prerequisites can vary each time the courses are offered.