School of Computer Science and Statistics
(Semester 2, 5 ECTS) The first part of this module introduces students to concurrency and concurrent
programming. The second part looks at aspects of the function and implementation of operating systems.
(Semester 2, 5 ECTS) Regular languages, context free languages, feature structures, a brief into to Probailistic Methods in NLP, topic varying year to year,
examples being the use of Hidden Markov models in speech recognition, or
statistical machine translation, a brief into recursive computation of semantic values from grammatical structures.
(Semester 1, 5 ECTS) Fundamentals of C++ including built-in types and coercion, pointers, arrays, reference parameters, STL containers string and vector structs, classes, inheritance (illustrated by Qt library for GUIs), dynamic memory allocation and recursive data structures.
(Semester 1, 5 ECTS) Students taking this module have already successfully completed courses in object oriented Java programming and ARM assembly language programming.