Undergraduate Handbook - School of Computing and Informatics ...

connections and scripts in order that one or more servers can share data from one or more data sources; Integrate
databases which are dissimilar in structure, platform and DBMS.
Indicative Content: HTML; Scripting languages; Server side scripting architecture and building dynamic web
applications; Web development in any language, including Visual Basic, C++, and J++ programming; Integrative
technologies e.g. XML technologies and protocols
Reference Books:
i. M. Wilson and T. Wilson, XML Programming with VB and ASP.
ii. B. Brogden et al, Java Developers Guide to E-Commerce with XML and JSP.
CSC 2111 Database Management Systems I (3 CU)
Course Description: This course is to provide students with a strong foundation in systematic approaches to design
and implementing of database applications. Preliminarily, operations like requirements gathering and database
planning will be covered. The course will also introduce students to developing of application Programmes that talk
to the database. These applications may be online or offline. The aims of the course are to: Provide a background for
the evolution of database (management) systems; Provide the students with the steps one has to go through when
developing good database applications; Give hand on experience and knowledge in developing database (driven)
applications
Indicative Content: Background to databases; Evolution of database systems; Database organization and
architecture; Data base models; Over view of database application development; The database development life
cycle; Database design; Conceptual design; Logical design; Physical Design; Querying databases; SQL/PL SQL
and Scripting.
Reference Books:
i. T. Connolly and C. Begg, Database Solutions, 2nd Edition.
CSC 2200 Operating Systems (3 CU)
Course Description: This course introduces students to software that controls hardware and makes the hardware
usable. Its interaction with other computer devises and how it controls other computer processes is explored. The
course aims to: Provide students with a detailed understanding of how operating systems work; Provide students
with skills to write basic Programmes to utilize underlying operating system infrastructures. The dominant
categories of operating systems are Windows and UNIX (Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, etc). On completion of this course
unit, the students will be able to: Have a proper understanding of the differences between these two operating
systems Understand different design principles for operating systems and various software tools that make operating
systems usable.
Indicative Content: Operating Systems Structures; Processes and threads; Thread creation, manipulation and
synchronization; Deadlock; Implementing Synchronization operations; CPU scheduling; Memory management; File
systems and file system implementation; Monitors; Segments; Disk Scheduling; Networking; UDP and TCP.
Reference Books:
i. W. Stallings, Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 4th edition, 2007.
BIT 2201 Marketing in the IT Sector (3 CU)
Course Description: A marketing orientation drives strategic decision-making in most companies today. The
business press is constantly discussing the efforts of companies to get close to their customers or to meet their needs
better than the competition. Indeed, it is impossible to understand the current and potential financial success of
companies today without a thorough understanding of their target markets, customer relationships, product
development skills, and competitive advantages and disadvantages. Marketing is all about creating and capturing
value. By providing superior value to customers, companies enhance their own value. The marketing concept is so
pervasive in companies that a marketing orientation extends well beyond the marketing department. Marketing has
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