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IT1 05 Behaviour and Communications in
Organisations
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: oral presentations, research project
A first-year subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology degree.
Subject aims
To provide students with:
(a) an understanding of the nature and importance of communication,
interpersonal skills and group development
to organisational management;
(b) to develop students' interpersonal skills and skills as
team members;
(c) to allow students to experiment with various techniques,
theories and approaches to communications and
management through the use of experiential teaching
techniques;
(d) to prepare students to appreciate the context of work
and their own roles as organisation members;
(e) to provide a foundation for subsequent studies.
Subject description
Communication perception, oral presentations, assertiveness
skills, negotiation skills, conflict management, and research
skills.
IT1 22 Mathematics
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisites: nil
Assessment: assignment and examination
An elective subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology.
Subject description
Vectors and matrices; manipulation of vectors, linear
combination of vectors, linear independence and basis,
matrix manipulation, inverse of a matrix, matrix solution of
equations.
Markov process, definition of stochastic systems, transient
and steady systems, first time package.
Queueing theory; classification of queueing systems, basic
queueing models, other queueing models.
Simulation; introduction to random number generators,
simulation techniques and some applications.
Forecasting; definitions, requirements, time series forecasting,
moving averages, exponential smoothing and their
applications.
Decision theory; classification of decision problems; decision
trees and related topics.
Multicriteria decision models.
IT201 Decision Analysis
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
A first-year subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology degree.
Subject aims
To familiarise students with a range of statistical, financial
and modelling methods commonly used in the decision
support area. The application of techniques to solve business
problems and to present the results using software packages
such as LOTUS, MINITAB, Harvard Presentation Graphics etc.
is emphasised.
Subject description
An introduction to modelling concepts.
Basic statistical ideas such as probability and the
combination of probabilities, probability distributions and
their applications, statistical measures (mean. variance),
introductory time series analysis, linear regression,
introduction to simulation.
Statistical applications through the use of sources of data,
data collection and manipulation with packages such as
MINITAB.
Financial analysis: the concept of interest, present value
methods, discounted cash flow, internal rates of return.
Throughout the course analysis and graphical presentations
by using packages such as LOTUS is emphasised.
IT202 COBOL Programming
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: IT102 Introductory Programming
A first-year subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology degree.
Subject aims
To train students to be able to:
read, understand, modify and debug COBOL programs;
design, write, test and document attractive wellstructured
programs in COBOL, using the main features
of 1985 ANSI COBOL.
Subject description
COBOL fundamentals: COBOL structure, syntax, examples,
simple vocabulary (PERFORM, MOVE, ACCEPT DISPLAI: etc.).
Sequential files: review file concepts, tapeldisk, file verbs.
Arithmetic: ADD, SUBTRACI: MULTIPLY DIVIDE, COMPUTE.
Moves: numeric, alphanumeric, group, MOVE
CORRESPONDING.
Editing: fixed insertion, floating insertion, replacement.
Reports: layouts, headings, page control, page numbering.
Data validation: IFELSE, nested IFs, evaluate sign & class
tests, range & limit tests, compound statements, 88 lewls.
Control group reporting: PERFORM v IF group processing,
group totals, group indication, group headings, summary
reports.
Testing and debugging: testing strategies, test data, design.
Indexed files: physical description of indexed files, VSAM v
ISAM, random v sequential access, environmentldata division
entries, verbs.
Tables: REDEFINES, review table concepts, one-dimension
tables, two-dimension tables, PERFORM VARYING, binary
search, SEARCH, SEARCH ALL.
Multiple file processing: merges, mergelreplace, master file
update.
String processing: INSPECX STRING, UNSTRING.
Sorts: sort, merge, work file, key fields, SORT verb, input
procedure, output procedure.
Sub-programs: program design and development, modular
design, cohesion, coupling.
IT203 Business Applications & Systems 2
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: IT1 03 Business Applications and
Systems I
A first-year subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology degree.