School of Mathematics
Course 362 - Computer Engineering 1998-99 (SS Mathematics
)
Lecturer: Dr. J.B. Grimson, Professor J.G. Byrne and Dr. P. Cunningham (Computer Science)
Requirements/prerequisites: 372
Duration:
Number of lectures per week: 5 in Michaelmas term, 4 in Hilary term
Assessment: Course work
End-of-year Examination: One 3-hour examination
Description:
The course is divided into three parts:
- File organisation and database management
- basic file organisation techniques including sequential, ISAM, VSAM,
direct access, B-trees, inverted files, multi-lists
-
overview of database management including architecture of DBMS,
concurrency control, recovery, security, integrity
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introduction to relational DBMS using Oracle SQL, normalisation.
- Formal language theory and denotational semantics with practical
application to compiler construction.
-
LISP and an introduction to artificial intelligence.
Jun 10, 1998
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