COMPUTING: Western University

Description

“Computer Science 1032a is an introduction to information systems and the roles played by these systems in business. This course satisfies the Information Technology requirement for a Certified Accountant, a Certified General Accountant or a Certified Management Accountant accreditation. The content of the course has been approved by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, The Certified General Accountants of Ontario and The Society of Management Accountants of Ontario. The materials used in this course for the introduction to Microsoft applications software have been approved by Microsoft for use in the preparation for the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification exams.”

Sections

• 1.1 Internet, WWW
• 1.2 Markup Languages: HTML, XML
• 1.3 Networks: LAN, WAN, VPN
• 2.2 Database design: Entity Relationship Diagrams
• 2.3 Query languages: SQL
• 2.4 Creating and using databases: Access
• 3.1 Enterprise Resource Planning systems
• 3.2 Reliability, availability, maintainability and integrity
• 3.3 Security
• 3.4 Systems Development Life Cycle
• 4.1 Designing and using spreadsheets: Excel

Description

“This course is an introduction to multimedia and explores the use of different types of media components (text, images, sound, animation and video) to convey ideas and facilitate interaction delivered through a web site. Topics include design considerations and media creation/editing tools for creating websites, graphics, sound, animation and video files. This course has a theoretical and a practical component. Media components will be studied at a theoretical level, and students will have the opportunity to practice their skills by using software to create graphics, animation, movies, and web sites.”

Sections

• 1 WinSCP
• 2 Adobe Photoshop CS3
• 3 Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
• 4 Adobe Flash CS3
• 5 Windows Movie Maker
• 6 Audacity (free, open source)

Description

“The purpose of this course is to provide the students with solid foundations in the basic concepts of programming: data structures and algorithms. The main objective of the course is to teach the students how to select and design data structures and algorithms that are appropriate for problems that they might encounter. This course is also about showing the correctness of algorithms and studying their computational complexities. This course offers the students a mixture of theoretical knowledge and practical experience. The study of data structures and algorithms is carried out within an object-oriented framework. When implementations are considered, the Java programming language is used.”

Sections

• 1 Analysis of algorithms
• 2 Trees, binary search trees, multi-way search trees
• 3 Dictionaries, hash tables
• 4 Graphs, graph traversals, graph algorithms
• 5 Sorting