Study of software development practices and processes in the following areas: software life cycle; system validation and verification; development pipeline; cloud infrastructures; virtual machines, and containers; logging, instrumentation, and performance; fundamental security concepts. Experience working in groups. Restricted to students not in Senior Standing. Prereq: CS 416 or CS 417 or equivalent.

Study software/hardware interaction, understand data and program representation. Topics include fundamentals of computer organization, CPU, memory, registers, addressing modes, instruction sets, assemblers, linkers, concurrency, memory hierarchy and memory management. Prereq: (CS 416 with minimum grade of C- or CS 417 with minimum grade of C-), CS 420 with minimum grade of C-.

An entry-level introduction to a wide range of fundamental cybersecurity topics: authentication, authorization, auditing, cryptography, human element, network security, OS security, mobile & IoT security. The emphasis is to explain basic concepts with real world examples. Prereq: (CS 416 or CS 417).

Principles of problem analysis and software design applied to the development cycle of a software system (i.e. from system requirements specification to design, implementation, and system test). Design and implementation using object-oriented principles, patterns, and tools. Experience in understanding and debugging software systems. Experience in working in groups. Prereq: CS 515 with minimum grade of C-, CS 518.