Subject: Computer Science
Credit units: 3
Offered: Either Term 1 or Term 2
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 1.5 Tutorial hours
College: Arts and Science
Department: Computer Science

Description

Apply mathematical logic to applications in computer science, leading to program interpretation and understanding; including pre-/post-conditions, invariants, Hoare logic, relational algebra, and verification. Develop skills and knowledge for designing, debugging, documenting, verifying and testing code, and understand programs including open-source code. Topics are introduced using standard examples including stacks and queues; extended examples are drawn from string-matching algorithms and finite state automata. An introduction to reasoning about concurrency, pitfalls, and language/library-level solutions.

Prerequisite(s): MATH 163.3 or CMPT 260.3; and CMPT 145.3.
Note: Students with credit for CMPT 260 can take CMPT 263 for credit, but students cannot take CMPT 260 for credit after completing CMPT 263.

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