Undergraduate Handbook - School of Computing and Informatics ...

vii. M. Mirabito, B. Morgenstern, Communication Technology and Social Change: Theory and Implications
Lea's Communication Series, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.
BSE 1103: System Analysis and Design (3 CU)
Course Description: This course introduces established and evolving methodologies for the analysis and design of
an information system. Great emphasis is placed on system characteristics, managing projects, prototyping,
CASE/OOM tools, systems development life cycle phases, the role of the systems analyst, systems selection,
definition of systems requirements, feasibility analysis, system design, and system architecture are topics included.
Upon completion, students should be able to analyze a problem and design an appropriate solution using a
combination of tools and techniques.
Indicative Content:
• SAD Fundamentals: Introduction to IS & types of IS; Need for SAD & role of Analyst; SDLC & use of
CASE tools; Determining feasibility & mgt of SAD activities.
• Information Requirements Analysis Information gathering (Interactive methods, unobtrusive methods,
RAD, prototyping); Determining Systems requirements (types of requirements)
• The Analysis Process: Structuring systems requirements (describing process specifications & structured
decisions) Data modelling; Process modelling; Preparing System proposals.
• The Design Process: Designing effective output; Designing effective input (Accurate Data entry
Procedures); User Interface design; Database Design.
• System Implementation: Quality Assurance through Software Engineering (design with structured charts,
testing, maintenance, auditing, Quality mgt); Implementing Information Systems (user training, conversion
strategies, systems evaluation
• Project Management: Stages of system Development; Project planning; Estimation & Project Monitoring &
Control
• Introduction to Object-oriented Systems Analysis & Design using UML
Reference Books:
i. Kendall & Kendall, Systems Analysis and Design, 6th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.
ii. J. A. Hoffer, J. F. George and J. S. Valacich , Modern Systems Analysis and Design, 2nd edition, Addison-
Wesley, 1999.
BSE 1104: Discrete Mathematics (3 CU)
Course Description: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will: Be familiar with the terminology,
operations, and symbols of set theory, and with formal logic; Be able to use logic to determine the validity of an
argument; Be able to construct the proof of a theorem directly, by the contra positive, by cases, by contradiction, by
truth table, by counter-example, and by mathematical induction; Be able to identify a relation; specifically, a partial
order, equivalence relation, or total order; Be able to identify a function; specifically, subjective, injective, and
objective functions; Be able to perform operations on matrices; Be familiar with the terminology for graphs and
trees; Be able to trace Euler and Hamiltonian paths; Be able to construct minimal spanning trees and adjacency
matrices for graphs; Have begun to develop a logical mode of thought that will be applicable to computer design,
both hardware and software.; Be able to understand sequential logic; Be able to understand sets and relations and be
able to represent information using zeros and ones.
Indicative Content: Set algebra, logic, relations and functions, recursion, matrices; graph theory, and methods of
proof. Emphasis is on an algorithmic approach; Set theory; Methods of proof; Recursion; Matrix algebra; Graphs
and trees. Application to data structure and graph representations, partial ordered sets, trees, algebraic structures,
lattices and Boolean algebra, semi groups, groups, introduction to grammars and machines and languages, error
correcting codes; Representation of information two’s complement arithmetic. Combinational logic: switching
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