Université de Regina

Introduction to Programming with Python

An introduction to problem-solving techniques using Python. This course will introduce fundamental programming principles and topics: data types, expressions, control structures, elementary data structures, functions, files, and the mechanics of running, testing and debugging. These concepts will be applied to problem solving and applications in data analysis.

Foundations of Mathematics 30, Precalculus 20, Math B30, Math C30, or PMTH 092.

Students may receive credit for one of CS 165 or STAT 165

Introduction to Digital Systems

Hardware paradigms, logic minimization, sequential and combinational circuits, register transfer notation. Numerical data representation, number bases, floating-point and two’s-complement representation, representation of non-numeric data, records and arrays. Von Neumann architecture, control units, instruction sets, assembly language programming, addressing modes, subroutines, basic building blocks, computer components

Java Programming and Applications

Learn to program in the Java programming language. Topics will include the basic building blocks of procedural programming, object-oriented programming, event-oriented programming, graphical user interfaces, simple data structures including arrays and linked lists, and advanced topic including recursion and threads. Problems will be drawn from various science and engineering disciplines. 

Introduction to Multimedia Systems

Multimedia is the use of computers to integrate texts, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an interactive experience. The course introduces these elements of multimedia and their associated technologies. Students will gain an appreciation of each element and be able to combine them into a finished work.

Building Interactive Gadgets

An introduction to building and controlling interactive devices for multimedia art and DIY projects. Build robots, new musical instruments, wearable computers and more. Learn about sensots and actuators: WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS; hardware platforms such as the Arduino; and software platforms such as Processing and MaxMSP.

Data Structures and Abstractions

This course introduces data abstraction, data structures and their implementations, the basics of algorithmic analysis, and the fundamental computing algorithms. Topics include stacks, queues, heaps, recursion, Master Theorem, asymptotic notation, computational complexity, empirical performance measurement, recursion based sorting algorithms, hashing, and trees (including binary trees, B-trees, and AVL trees).

Web and Database Programming

This course shows how interactive database-driven web applications are designed and implemented. Appropriate protocols and languages for web and database programming will be discussed, with a focus on client-server architectures, interface design, graphics and visualization, event-driven programming, information management, data modeling, and database systems.

Methods in Numerical Analysis

Topics will include number systems and errors, solutions of polynomial and other nonlinear equations, interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration, and the cubic spline.

Introduction to Data Science

This course introduces data science including current programming languages and libraries for performing data analysis. Topics include data exploration and preparation, data visualization and presentation, computing with data, and an introduction to data modeling and predictive analysis. Technical and communication skills used by data scientists will be introduced.

Risk and Reward in the Information Society

Social context of computing. Case study: human-computer interfaces and their evaluation. Methods and tools of analysis. Professional and ethical responsibilities. Risks and liabilities of computer-based systems. Intellectual property, privacy and civil liberties. Professional communication. Sustainability. Cybercrime.

Intro to Digital Multimedia

This course will focus on digital graphic and website design students will learn industry standard and motion graphic software packages: Adobe Photoshop & Premiere, Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX. Students will participate in problem-solving environment using timelines. Projects will require good design concepts and an understanding of multimedia software packages. 

Java Programming Language

Introduction to Java (based on an instructor-led Sun course offered in industry). The course covers topics such as arrays, exceptions, GUI interfaces, GUI event handling, Threads, I/O streams and Networking. 

Topics in Societal and Ethical Considerations

This course will involve exploration of various considerations of computerized society and what it means to be a professional therein. The student will examine the history of computing, the history of the computing profession, Ethics of professional conduct, intellectual property, and computer crime, among other topics of interest. 

Computer Technology for Live Performance

Exploration of the way computer technology can impact various aspects of the performing arts (specifically live theatre, dance, and concert environments for the performing arts (specifically live theatre, dance, and concert environments) including lighting, sound, props and set design as well as projection mapping, virtual/augmented reality, and interactive performance.

Topics in Data Acquisition and Analysis

Introduced to data collection techniques by developing their own sensor modules, running experiments and verifying the results. Students will learn microcontroller programming for data collection as well as regression techniques and error analysis for calibration and verification. Potential modules developed range from simple light sensors to fully functioning geiger counters.

Introductory Topics in Artificial Intelligence

A course in special topics in which the student makes an independent study in Artificial Intelligence at the second-year level under the supervision of a faculty member in the department.

Introduction to Computer Graphics

Introduction to graphics hardware and software. Two-dimensional graphics rendering algorithms. Basic three-dimensional modeling, transformations, viewing geometry, lighting and shading, hidden surface removel, and texture mapping. 

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Foundations and main methods of Artificial Intelligence. Problem characteristics and spaces. Search and optimization techniques with a focus on uninformed and heuristic algorithms. Two player games and constraint satisfaction. Modelling and simulation. Comparison of logic-based, fuzzy, and probabilistic reasoning and knowledge representation methodologies. Machine learning: learning tasks, inductive learning, statistical-based learning, over-fitting, accuracy. 

Introduction to Operating Systems

Overview of operating systems: functionality, and design issues. Operating system principles: structures, abstractions, APIs, resource allocation, proximity, virtualization. Concurrency: process state, context switches, process communication, synchronization. Scheduling: preemption, schedulers, processes, and threads. Memory management. Security and protection. File systems. User interface. Distributed algorithms: consensus, termination, and fault tolerance. 

Computer Networks

Network architectures and protocols, networked applications, reliable data delivery, routing and forwarding, local area networks, resource allocation, mobility, reliability through redundancy. Security: secure design, defensive programming, threats and attacks, network security, cryptography. 

Advanced Data Structures and Algorithm Design

Fundamental algorithms: depth- and breadth-first traversals, pattern matching, and graph algorithms. Algorithmic strategies: brute-force, greedy, divide-and-conquer, backtracking, branch-and-bound, dynamic programming, and randomized. Algorithm analysis, complexity theory, performance evaluation. Parallelism: fundamentals, algorithms, communication. 

Programming Language Concepts

Programming language genealogy and design. Imperative, functional, and object-oriented language paradigms. Context-free grammars and syntax trees. Data types, control structures, exception handling, data abstraction, information hiding, and non-determinism. Program representation, translation, and execution. Functional programming: advantages, constructs, closures, and higher-order operations. Parallel programming.

Numerical and Symbolic Computing

Least squares and other approximations. Difference equations. Solutions of algebraic systems. Symbol manipulators.

Data Wrangling

Introduction to the fundamentals of data wrangling including processes of data acquisition, integration, transformation, and cleaning throughout the data life cycle. Emphasis on the importance of data quality with topics in data integrity, security, and social responsibility. Techniques for effective visualization and communication through project work. 

Database and Information Retrieval

Information management: concepts and applications. Motivation for database systems. Components of database systems. Data modeling: conceptual, spreadsheet, relational, object-oriented, and semi-structured models. Querying and database query languages. Caching and transaction processing. Other topics include distributed databases, physical database design, and information retrieval systems.

Web Content Development and Production

Explore various leading-edge technologies for digital multimedia content creation and production for web-based delivery. Examine issues for media conversion and compression, and their effect on communication. Students will demonstrate these ideas in a web-based project.

User Interface Implementation and Evaluation

User Interfaces are an essential part of any interactive software application. Ideally. the interface will accommodate users from beginners to experts by providing a low threshold and a high ceiling to interactions with the software. Students will implement a user interface with existing tool kits and then evaluate their interface with users.

Mobile Computing

Developing software applications (called apps) for mobile computing platforms such as smart phones, tablets and personal media devices. Topics may include touch-screen interfaces, power management, graphics optimization, communication, location, and mobile browsers. App marketplaces and network carrier policies will also be discussed. For each term, the course will concentrate on a single platform, such as iOS, Android, or Windows Phone 7, and culminate in a large-scale project.

Special Topics in Virtual Reality

Introductory topics in virtual reality. Environments, Platforms, Locomotion, Physiology, Applications.

Intermediate Topics in Artificial Intelligence

A course in special topics in which the student makes an independent study in Artificial Intelligence at the third-year level under the supervision of a faculty member in the department.

Advanced Digital Systems Architecture

Advances in computer architecture. Topics will be selected from performance enhancements, digital signal processing architectures, architectures for networks and distributed systems, architectures for mobile devices, and recently proposed architectures. 

Computer Graphics

Advanced topics in computer graphics, including special modeling techniques for natural phenomenon, advanced illumination models and rendering algorithms.

Animation Software Design

This course teaches the design and implementation of software for creating animations. Topics include history of animation, technical background, motion control, keyframe-based animation, kinematics, physically based animation, fluid animation, modelling and animating human figures, facial animation, modelling behavior, and special models for animation.

Interactive Entertainment Software

This course teaches the design and implementation of interactive entertainment software, including computer games. Topics include history of interactive software, social factors, principles of interactive entertainment, hardware platforms, current software development tools, game design, game architecture, game physics, collision detection, game graphics, artificial intelligence for games, audio, game production and business aspects.

Computability and Formal Languages

The notion of effective procedure and Turing machine. The universal Turing machine. Nondeterministic Turing machine. Recursive functions and other computable functions. The halting problem and unsolvability. Grammar and formal language. Finite automata and regular grammars. Context-free grammars and push-down automata. Post correspondence problem. The Chomsky hierarchy of languages and context-sensitive language.

Advanced Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Artificial Intelligence approaches to approximate reasoning and machine learning. Decision trees and other selected data-based knowledge models. Topics may include logic programming and PROLOG, LISP, Artificial Intelligence in games, data mining, natural language processing, pattern recognition, and planning.

Image Processing

Introduction to image processing systems. Image transformation. Image enhancement. Image coding and compression. Feature extraction and image segmentation.

Introduction to Computer Audio

The purpose of this course is to provide a broad overview of many areas of computer audio, including: Digital representation and compression; Psychoacoustics; Surround Sound; Speech recognition and Music Information Retrieval; MIDI and New interfaces for music; and video game sound. We will also explore modular interactive software environments such as Max/MSP and PD.

Human Computer Communications

This course stresses the importance of good interfaces and the relationship of user interface design to human-computer interaction. Other topics include: interface quality and methods of evaluation; interface design examples; dimensions of interface variability; dialogue genre; dialogue tools and techniques; user-centered design and task analysis; prototyping and the iterative design cycle; user interface implementation; prototyping tools and environments; I/O devices; basic computer graphics; color and sound.

Advanced Topics in Operating Systems

Advanced operating system concepts. Topics include one or more of the following: distributed systems, real-time operating systems, intelligent networks, communications protocols, and database process control within a client-server framework.

Cryptography and Network Security

Classical cryptosystems, data encryption standards, advanced encryption algorithms, public key cryptosystems, digital signatures, IP security, and web security.

Information Visualization

Focuses on design, development, and study of interactive visualization techniques for the analysis, exploration, and explanation of abstract information. Topics covered: principles of visual perception, information data types, visual encodings of data, representations of relationships, interaction methods, evaluation techniques. 

Mobile Computing

Mobile Computing focuses on the design and implementation of software in a networked mobile environment. The primary topics to be covered in the course include software development practices, network computing, graphics programming, and human-computer interaction, all focused on the challenges and opportunities afforded by modern mobile computing devices.

Virtual and Augmented Reality

Design and implementation of software in virtual and augmented reality environments. Development practices, assets and avatars, interaction, locomotion, psychological effects, audio, multiplayer considerations, applications. Limitations and future developments. 

Advanced Topics in Numerical Analysis

Numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations. Numerical solutions of partial differential equations. Linear and non-linear problems. 

Data Mining

Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD). Topics include knowledge discovery, data preparation, data warehousing, pattern mining, classification and regression, cluster analysis, outlier detection, mining complex data types.

Management Support Systems

Strategic and tactical rewards resulting from the effective use of corporate information systems will be presented. Topics include techniques and tools for developing management support systems. Case studies on development and use of the systems will be discussed.

Advanced Topics in Database Systems

Advanced database systems concepts. Topics include one or more of the following: in-depth study of topics covered in CS 375; inclusion dependency and semantic data models; object-oriented databases; probabilistic databases; Web databases; data mining.

Software Development Project

Software development projects following all the phases of the software process. Project planning and scheduling. Surveys on architectural styles, design patterns and components. Semester-long group projects with real-world applications. Projects will be integrative, require evaluation of potential solutions, and require work on a larger scale than typical course projects.

Special Topics: Computer Graph

Special topics in computer graphics: 3D viewing transformation and perspective projection, ray-tracing and radiosity rendering techniques, multiresuolution surface models, special advanced modelling techniques.

Emerging User Interface Design

Discover new and emerging principles of UI design. Derive guidelines directly applicable to industrial applications from research in the fields of Psychology, HCI, and Software Engineering Methodologies. 

Adv. Obj. Oriented Prog.in C++

The student will investigate topics related to object oriented programming in C++ and will implement a class hierarchy for several data structures and algorithms. As well, the student will develop several demonstration applications to illustrate the use of the class hierarchy.

Topics in Data Comm & Network

Topics in Data Communications and Networks: Protocol Concepts, Local Area Networking, Wide Area Networking, Network Programming. 

Designing Animation With Flash

Learning the basics of multimedia animation design. Learning how to use Macromedia's Flash software.

Soc. &Eth. Impl. of Computing

To study the social and ethical implications of computing and telecommunications. Topics include computerization, quality of life, unemployment, personal privacy and freedom.

Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing: Principles of Natural Language Processing, Grammars Language Formalisms, Declarative Cause Grammars, Project.

Server-side web applications

Students will study the concepts and competing technologies involved in web-based application development and will use JSP, servlets, HTTP, and JDBC in the development of their own server-side applications.

Advanced Database Design

Review database schema design using FDs. Examine various methods of using MVDs to design acyclic databases. Investigate why these methods fail when using EMVDs. Examine the use of sematntic models in database schema design.

Computer Game Programming

Principles of Computer Games. History. Simulation and Modelling, graphics, artificial intelligence, real-time processing, game theory, and web based games.

Project

Applied Image Processing

Study of basic image processing algorithms. Applications of selected techniques to practical problems.

A term project is required.

Bayesian Networks

Uncertain reasoning. Modeling probabilistic knowledge using directed acyclic graphs. Directed separation and its relationship with probabilistic conditional independence. Inference algorithms for processing queries given evidence.

Computer Audio Topics

Representation of audio, compression, spatialization and surround sound, analysis and synthesis, speech, music, temporal and spectral processing. 

Principles and Techniques of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

In this directed readings course, the goal will be to designan Augmented Reality (AR) application in Unity. The main contribution to the project will be the creation of realistic holograms and the incorporation of objectrecognition using libraries such as OpenCV. Feedback from the users will be an important part in the designing process of the app, as it will influence the decisions made about UI design and the features to be implemented. The app will be tested on a Microsoft HoloLens using its Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity, or on other devices capable of doing AR if they are found to be more suitable for the users.

Open Source Software Development

This course will introduce students to software development in an open source environment, including methodology and philosophy. Students will gain hands-on experience with the tools used in open source development, leading to contributions to an active open source software development project. Students will also have the opportunity to enhance their general programming skills in a very practical way. 

Wireless Technologies

Study and analysis of several wireless communications, such as Bluetooth, RFID and Wi-fi-by including case studies.

Web Service Design

This course will explore issues around the design, coding, and deployment of web-based services for public use. Topics of study will include various architectures for web-based systems, including their programming. Mash-ups of existing services will also be considered. Students will develop and test a web-based service.

Computational Models in Meaning of Music

This course will investigate existing and new models of music analysis, including cognitive, affective, expectational, and self-referential models. Topics will be drawn from pattern recognition, cognitive science, and musicology

Foundations and Applications in Data Mining

Foundations and applications of data mining. Topics include one or more of the following: data preparation and transformation, review of relevant quantitive methods, data characterization, generalization, classification and prediction, clustering, association, on-line analytical processing, data warehousing, data analysis, model development, interpretation.

Topics in Interactive Entertainment

This course investigates one or more topics in interactive entertainment in depth. Topics may include: game studies, game design, game programming, graphics and animations for games, artificial intelligence for games, game physics, game audio, game production, and recent advances in interactive entertainment.

Visual Analytics

Visual analytics is a multi-disciplinary field that facilitates analytical reasoning through interactive visual interfaces. The student will therefore study aspects of visualization, human factors, and data analysis in aid of conducting an analysis of available data.

Mobile Application Development and Deployment

Programming for mobile deployment platforms such as smartphones and tablets. Views, models, navigation, interfaces, graphics. Development environments, app stores, cross-platform deployment.

Mobile Computing

Mobile Computing focuses on the design and implementation of software in a networked mobile environment. The primary topics to be covered in the course include software development practices, network computing, graphics programming, and human-computer interaction, all focused on the challenges and opportunities afforded by modern mobile computing devices.

Information Visualization

Information Visualization focuses on the design, development, and study of interactive visualization techniques for the analysis, comprehension, exploration, and explanation of large collections of abstract information. Topics to be covered include principles of visual perception, information data types, visual encodings of data, representations of relationships, interaction methods, and evaluation techniques