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:

1. 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

   • introduction to relational DBMS using Oracle SQL, normalisation.

   • overview of software engineering principles

2. LISP and an introduction to artificial intelligence.

Oct 17, 2000