Undergraduate Handbook - School of Computing and Informatics ...

Reference Books:
i. H. G-Molina, J. D. Ullman, and J. Widom, Database Systems: The Complete Book, Prentice Hall. 2002.
ii. R. Elmasri and S. B. Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, 4th edition.
BSE 2104: Computer Architecture (3 CU)
Course Description: Upon successful completion of the course, the student should: Have gained an understanding
of basic components of the modern computer system; Be able to describe the operation of the various logic gets; Be
able to design digital circuits; Demonstrate a good understanding of sequential and parallel processing; Perform low
level assembly programming; and perform low level memory management.
Indicative Content: Computer Organization and Structures (based on the Von Neumann architecture); Processor
unit organization: control unit, ALU, processor register and internal buses; hardwired and micro-programmed
control. Instructions sets, formats and types; Addressing modes, stacks, pipelining, RISC/CISC concepts; Memory
organization and addressing; Memory hierarchy and cache; Special-purpose co-processors; I/O facilities and storage
devices; The Operating System level.
Reference Books:
i. D. A. Patterson and J. L. Hennessy, Computer Architectures: A Quantitative Approach, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 3rd edition, 2003.
ii. A. S. Tanenbaum, Structured Computer Organisation, 4th edition, Prentice Hall inc., Upper Saddle River,
1999.
BSE 2200: Systems Software (4 CU)
Course Description: By the end of this course, Students will understand the various levels of system and
application software; They will be familiar with the major Operating System services such as file systems, memory
management, process management, device control and network services; They will understand how design decisions
in Operating Systems affect users of the system; In addition, students will have used a major Operating System
extensively, with experience in using an interactive command line programming language; and They will also will
have experience in using a systems programming language with an Application Programmers Interface to the
Operating System for its services based on Unix OS, and the C systems programming language.
Indicative Content: This course looks at the necessary system architecture introduction for further study of
operating systems, computer architectures, and the implementation of higher level languages. It goes further and
builds upon that by looking at the concepts underlying Operating Systems, and to show how different choices in
Operating System design and implementation have effects on applications, application programmers and user
environments.
Reference Books:
i. L. L. Beck, System Software: An Introduction to Systems Programming, Addison Wesley; 3rd edition,
August, 1996.
ii. A. S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall 2001.
iii. A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin and G. Gagne, Operating Systems Concepts, 6th edition, John Wiley & Sons
2002.
BSE 2201 Network Application Development (4 CU)
Course Description: This course is designed to: Familiarize students with technologies and protocols that support
computer communication networks, including the Internet; and elaborate on network based programming
methodologies, languages, tools and standards.
Indicative Content: Design principles for network-based applications; design and development of Java Servlets,
JSP, Web services and .NET; principles of information security in network-based applications; http and https
protocols.
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