Jonathan Pierre

Introduces the basic concepts and modern tools and techniques of software engineering. Emphasizes the development of reliable and maintainable software via system requirements and specifications, software design methodologies including object-oriented design, implementation, integration, and testing; software project management; life-cycle documentation; software maintenance; and consideration of human factor issues.

This course introduces essential concepts of operating systems, compilers, concurrency, and performance analysis, focused around several cross-cutting examples, such as memory management, error handling, and threaded programming. In this course, operating systems concepts are considered from the point of view of the application programmer, and the focus is on APIs for interacting with an operating system.

This course will describe the principles and practice of securing software systems. Topics will include: software vulnerabilities; static and dynamic analysis techniques for vulnerability detection; exploit detection and prevention; secure software development techniques and defensive programming; malware detection and analysis; security policies and sandboxing; information flow.

This course will cover all aspects of web security, including browser security, web server security, and web application security. Topics include: SOP and JavaScript; application and protocol vulnerabilities; probing, surveillance, and tracking; penetration testing; modern social engineering techniques; monetary incentives and monetization.