Advanced Programming Techniques for Engineering Applications

(2-0-3-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Elective for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Elective for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 3 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Computer Systems and Software

Course Coordinator: Douglas M Blough

Prerequisites: ECE 2035 [min C] or ECE 2036 [min c]

Catalog Description

Course covers a number of programming techniques for distributed and parallel computing and other advanced methods, such as multiprecision arithmetic and nonblocking I/O.

Textbook(s)

Course Outcomes

  1. Determine when to use distributed computing methods or parallel computing methods to solve complex engineering applications.
  2. Create high-quality visual 3-D images of complex objects using the OpenGL graphics library.
  3. Implement several multi-precision public key and private key encryption methods using the GNU multi-precision mathematical library.
  4. Create programs without memory leaks using the RAII ans smart pointers
  5. Implement client/server applications using the sockets API and using the non-blocking appraoch for handling multiple clients simultaneously.
  6. Manage large programming tasks using CMake.

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

Not Applicable

Topical Outline

1. Distributed programming with MPI (3 lectures)
(a) Synchronous and Asychronous communications
(b) Group Communication and Synchronization

2. Parallel programming with pthreads (3 lectures)
(a) Mutual Exclusion
(b) Thread Synchronization

3. Object-Oriented code templates (2 lectures)
(a) Typesafe callbacks with templates
(b) Re-usable code with templates

4. Introduction to Data Mining using Map-Reduce (3 lectures)
(a) Google's approach to managing large datasets

5. Event-based Programming (2 lectures)
(a) Typesafe event handlers.

6. Introduction to graphics programming using OpenGL (3 lectures)
(a) 2-D and 3-D coordinate transformations

7. Using web services (3 lectures)
(a) Introduction to SOAP
(b) Performance considerations with web servcies

8. Using non-blocking system I/O (2 lectures)
(a) Asynchronous input-output programming
(b) Handlng multiple sockes with select

9. Introduction to database programming using MYSQL (2 lectures)
(a) The MYSQL database access API
(b) Security Issues with database programming.