CMSC 242 - Introduction to Network and Systems Programming

3 credits
A programming-intensive class covering the fundamentals of operating systems and networking. Emphasizes the use of programming using an Application Programming Interface (API). Topics covered include threading and parallelism, low-level file system access and memory management, communication using signals, socket programming, and the TCP/IP network stack.

Prerequisite(s): CMSC 162.
Corequisite(s): None.