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Subject description
Introduction: advantages and functions of database
management systems. The relational data model. Data
definition and manipulation. Structured query language,
advanced SQL.
Embedded SQL: embedding SQL in a third generation
language (COBOL).
OLTP systems: using SQL in an on-line transaction
environment. DBMS transaction and lock management.
Data integrity, recovery and concurrency management.
Comwarisons between major commercial DBMSs.
Practical work involving the creation, loading and
manipulation of relational databases in batch and on-line
environments will be the focus of laboratory work. Particular
emphasis is placed upon popular DBMS software that the
students are likely to encounter in their industry based
learning segments.
1~322 Mathematics
10.0 credit points
An elective subject of the Bachelor of Information
Technology degree.
Subject description
Quality control concepts and applications to manufacture.
Logistics. Systems and location problems. Vehicle scheduling
and control, or relevant subjects from the mathematics
major.
1~401 Industry Based Learning
50.0 credit points
Twenty weks full-time project work in industry
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the
subjects of the first three segments
A second-year subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology degree.
Subject aims
To gain first hand experience of the operation of the
information technology environment, the work of data
processing departments and the workings of organisations.
To extend the learning of the preceding segments of the
course, in particular to gain experience of programming,
systems software and the information technology
environment of business and industry.
To address issues which can better be learned from within
the industrial environment - such as user liaison and
systems security.
Subject description
Students work under the supervision of both the industrial
sponsor and the student manager.
Projects and assignments and participation in the professional
activities of sponsors data processing and information
technology environments are assessed by student manager
and industry supervisor.
Students are expected to gain experience in the following
areas: programming, systems design, user liaison, and
security and to be closely involved with the application of at
least two of the following: data base communications, user
support, and systems software.
1~501 Systems and lnformation Analysis 1
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: IT303 Data Base Management
Systems 1
A second-year subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology degree.
Subject aims
This unit prwides students with the skills necessary to
perform information analysis and data modelling for detailed
applications as well as at the corporate level.
Students make extensive use of appropriate software tools to
help them develop detailed requirements specifications.
By the end of the unit students should be able to:
1. Prepare a requirements specification for a small
application, to be used for preparation of a structured
design specification.
2. Analyse corporate information requirements and hence
contribute to the preparation of a strategic data model
for an organisation.
3. Select the systems analysis approach appropriate to a
particular situation from a range of modelling
techniques and tools.
Subject description
Systems requirements, data and models.
Data analysis - user views of data; data dictionaries.
structured systems analysis - data flow diagrams; structured
design software; transforms.
Corporate information systems - corporate data modelling;
data administration; levels; planning, control, operational;
scope; corporate, divisional, local.
IT502 Systems Software 2
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: IT301 Systems Software 1
An optional second-year subject of the Bachelor of
lnformation Technology degree.
Subject aims
To make an in-depth study of a mainframe operating system
such as MVS or VM. The architecture of the mainframe as
well as the assembler language is studied so as to examine
the inter-relationship between systems software and the
computer's architecture. The role of the systems programmer
as distinct from the applications programmer is considered.
Subject description
Assembler programming: introductory concepts, instruction
formats, decimal instructions, data transfer and sequence
control, edit instructions, binary data and instructions,
address modification and arrays, bit and bye manipulations,
inputloutput macros, subroutines and linkages.
Systems programming: testing and debugging with
assembler languages, style, documentation of systems
software, problem determination (dump reading), systems
utilities, file systems (WAMIAMS), system generation, system
maintenance, recovery and termination management,
security.
Computer architecture: CPU and ALU principles of operation,
divisions of storage, addressing mechanisms, storage
boundaries, operation and interfacing of inputloutput
dwices.
IT503 Data Base Management Systems 2
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: IT303 Data Base Management
Systems 1
A second-year subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology degree.