ECE 450Software Systems
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1990–91 to 1994–95 (before that, 1964–65 used the number for Advanced Economic Theory); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Structured software design, software testing and maintenance. Data structures, arrays, lists, stacks, associative structures. Searching and sorting. Operating system organizations. Realtime software, principles of real-time executive (RTX), kernel, primitives, interprocess communication and synchronization, memory management, interrupts. Block structured languages, actual and formal parameters, recursion, formal description, relationship to machine code. Compilers. Prereq: E&CE 222 or equivalent. Project
As printed in the 1990–91 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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Spring 2015
Any mech eng doing/done the tron option? 1 point, 6 comments
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Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1964–65 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1990–91 to 1994–95 5 calendars
Structured software design, software testing and maintenance. Data structures, arrays, lists, stacks, associative structures. Searching and sorting. Operating system organizations. Realtime software, principles of real-time executive (RTX), kernel, primitives, interprocess communication and synchronization, memory management, interrupts. Block structured languages, actual and formal parameters, recursion, formal description, relationship to machine code. Compilers. Prereq: E&CE 222 or equivalent. Project
Not in the 1965–66 to 1989–90 calendars.
1964–65 1 calendar
Another title: Advanced Economic Theory, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Analysis of the theories of representative economists. Most attention is given to the writings of Marshall, Chamberlain and Keynes.
3 lectures.