The aim of this course is to introduce students to the world of managed runtime systems. Managed runtime systems are the ones responsible for executing interpreted languages. Such languages are usually compiled to some intermediate representation instead of native machine code, this intermediate representation is then parsed and executed by the corresponding managed runtime system. In this course we study how managed programming languages are implemented in the managed runtime systems, and more specifically the Java programming language. We also focus on how automatic memory management works, and how just-in-time compilers optimize code on the fly.
ECTS
6
Prerequisites
CS-252, CS-345
List of courses (from academic year 2024-25)
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The courses of the Computer Science Department are designated with the letters "CS" followed by three decimal digits. The first digit denotes the year of study during which students are expected to enroll in the course.
First Digit
Advised Year of Enrollment
1,2,3,4
First, Second, Third and Fourth year
5,6
Graduate courses
7,8,9
Specialized topics
Code
Computer Science Area
A1
Computer architecture and microelectronics
A2
Computer systems, parallel and high performance computing
A3
Computer security and distributed systems
A4
Computer networks, mobile computing, and telecommunications
B1
Algorithms and systems analysis
B2
Databases, information and knowledge management
B3
Software engineering and programming languages
B4
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
C1
Signal processing and analysis
C2
Computer vision and robotics
C3
Computer graphics and human-computer interaction
C4
Βioinformatics, medical informatics, and computational neuroscience
The following pages contain tables (one for each course category) summarizing courses offered by the undergraduate studies program of the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete. Courses with code-names beginning with "MATH" or "PHYS" are taught by the Mathematics Department and Physics Department respectively at the University of Crete.