Undergraduate Handbook - School of Computing and Informatics ...

Reference Books:
i. R. J. Anderson: Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Willey 2001.
ii. R. C. Seacord: Secure Coding in C and C++, Addison Wesley, 2005.
BIT 3200 Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (4 CU)
Course Description: This course covers techniques and software tools that can assist management that deals with
large amounts of data in management and business decision making. The course covers the fundamental differences
between databases and data warehouses, the techniques of developing data warehouses as well as manipulating them
to generate business strategic decisions. Students will be able to understand the role and operation of data
warehouses, be equipped with skills of developing, maintaining, and manipulating data warehouses to generate
information for business decision making.
Indicative Content: Data warehouse concepts: partitioning, granularity, record of source, and metadata; Building
viable decision support environments; Architect development, Data migration and integration, Use of operational
data stores, and transactional systems.
Reference Books:
i. P. Ponniah, Data warehousing fundamentals, Wiley, 2001.
BSE 3202: Distributed Systems Development (4 CU)
Course Content: This course gives students theoretical and practical skills on development of distributed systems
and applications. This includes distributed system-specific challenges like reliability and robustness. Students will
be equipped with skills of developing distributed systems.
Indicative Content; Event-driven software architectures, Distributed object computing, Development,
documentation and testing of distributed applications, Techniques for reusable, extensible and efficient software
systems, Maintainability and concurrence in distributed systems, Abstraction based on patterns and object-oriented
techniques
Reference Books:
i. S. Tanenbaum and M. V. Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 2nd Edition, Prentice
Hall, 2006.
ii. R. Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, John Wiley &
Sons, 2001.
6.4 Diploma in Computer Science and Information Technology Programme (DSCIT)
6.4.1 Overview
The Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology, Makerere University runs a two year undergraduate
Diploma in Computer Science and Information Technology. It was first introduced in 2003 and revised in 2009. The
revised curriculum took effect in 2009/2010 Academic year. It targets A-level leavers, Diploma holders and
Certificate holders. It is a day and evening privately sponsored Programme.
The main objectives of the Programme is develop personnel with theoretical and practical skills through hands on
training in Computer Science and Information Technology who will be able to provide high quality technical
support in computerized organizations. The Programme is run jointly by the Department of Computer Science and
Department of Information Technology. On top of overseeing the day to day running of the Programme, the
departments explore ways of improving the quality of the Programme so as to achieve its objectives.
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