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~~227 Programming 1 B
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisites: BTI 10 lnformation Technology or
both BT102 lnformation Technology 1A and
BTI 03 lnformation Technology 1 B
Instruction: lecture/tutoriaIllaboratory
Assessment: examination/assignment
Subject aims and description
To give students an understanding of the principles and
practiceof commercial programming.
By the end of the subject, the student will be able to:
describe the programming process, from problem
definition through to program testing;
discuss the principles of structured programming;
explain the importance and philosophy of testing;
g, design a logical structured solution to a problem using
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r. various algorithm techniques;
0 2 read, understand, modify, and debug C programs;
design, write, test, and document attractive, well-
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,I data structure;
algorithm design;
. data validation;
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arrays and tables;
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8. indexed files;
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~~330 Data Base
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisites: BT22O Data Analysis and Design,
BT224 Programming 1
Instruction: lecture/tutoriaVlaboratory
Assessment: examinationlassignrnent
Subject aims and description
Bv the end of this subject the student will be able to:
0. implement a logi;al data base design in a selection of
DBMSs;
design and program transactions against the data base
include appropriate security, integrity and recovery
functions in the above.
Topics
This subject builds upon the logical design concepts taught in
lnformation Analys~s in covering the implementation,
considerations of a number of DBMSs. The students'
acquaintance with SQL from that unit is also built upon in
the coverage of relational data bases.
References
To be advised
~~331 System Architecture 1
No. of hours per week: three and a half hours
Prerequisites: any two Stage 2 Computing
subjects
Instruction: lectureltutorial
Assessment: examinationlassignments
Subject aims and description
This subject concentrates on data communications
architectures. In particular, at the completion of this subject,
students will be able to:
demonstrate a sound knowledge of the basic concepts
and components involved in data communications;
demonstrate an understanding of the various
technologies used in the electronic office and how office
automation can increase the efficiency of knowledge
workers;
demonstrate an understanding of communication
protocols and their relation to system performance;
demonstrate an understanding of the goals and structure
of the IS0 reference model for computer network
protocols;
show a good knowledge of the data communication
services and facilities provided by the common carriers;
demonstrate an understanding of how data
communications benefits an organisation and how this
function is managed.
References
To be advised
BT332 System Architecture 2
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: BT331 System Architecture 1
Instruction: lectureltutorialllaboratory
Assessment: examinationlassignments
Subject aims and description
After a general introduction to new operating systems and
how communications software manages computer resources,
the subject looks at UNlX and DOSMlindows environments in
particular, both from the communications architecture and
usage aspect.
References
Glass, G. UNlX for Programmers and Users. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
Prentice Hall, 1993
~~333 lnformation Systems 2
No. of hours per week: three and a half hours
Prerequisites: BT220 Data Analysis and Design,
and BT223 lnformation Systems 1
Instruction: lectureltutorial
Assessment: examinationlassignments
Subject aims and description
lnformation systems which meet the business needs of
orqanisations must be based on a thorouah understandina of
the information needs (what needs to be-known?) and th;
business processes (what needs to be done?). A number of
methods of analysing and documenting this understanding
of the organisation are discussed. Several of these are
applied to transforming the analysis of business needs to a
model for system design.