CSCI 6303
Principles of
Information Systems
Syllabus for Fall
2009
Office :
Telephone : Office 381-3550
Email : jabraham@panam.edu Email is the best way to get a hold of me.
Web:
www.cs.panam.edu/~abraham
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Recommended
Steven Alter, Information Systems: Foundation of E-commerce, 4th
Ed. Prentice Hall, 2002
Martin,
Brown, DeHayes, Hoffer and Perkins, Managing Information Technology, 6th
Ed. Printice Hall, 2008 ISBN 0131789546
David Patterson, Computer
Organization and Design, Revised Printing, Third Edition, 3rd Ed. 2007
Abraham Siberschatz, Peter Galvin and Greg Gagne, Operating System Concepts with Java, 7th Edition,
2007
Catalog
Description
Presents
foundations of information technology with overviews of databases,
knowledge-based systems, E-commerce, software engineering, software tools,
programming, network communications and Internet.
Course
Topics:
This course will present topics and vocabularies that are core to information technology in particular and computer science in general. The material will be presented from a practical orientation while emphasizing the most important theoretical aspects.
Course
Structure:
Some lectures and other formal instruction will be given by your professor. Each student will be given a topic to write a 50 pages paper and the findings will be presented by the students. Practical assignments will include hardware installation, network installation, creating and manipulating database, html web page design, and VBScript and Java Script programming.
You need to refer three to five textbooks for the paper. Please provide a bibliography at the end. Do not copy from these books, please write a summary of what you read. Create exercises or homework assignments for the topic. Write 20 multiple choice questions covering the topic. Submit the questions and a key to the faculty only.
Course
Assignments and Grading:
There will be one midterm and one final examination. These exams will constitute 60% of the grade. 25% of the grade will be for the research paper (15%) and presentation (10%). The remaining 15% of the grade will be for the practical assignments administered by my TA. The TA will be totally responsible for this portion of the grade. Letter grades will be based on the following grading scale A: 90-100% B: 80-89% C: 70-79% F: 0-69%. This course requires complete participation by everyone in the class, so dont be absent.
If you
must miss an exam, make prior arrangements. No make-up exams will be given
unless you contact me in advance! Homework may be submitted to me by email or
hardcopy in my mailbox prior to class time. Late homework will be levied heavy
penalties. Penalty: One day late 10%, 1
week late 20%, 2 weeks late 50%. Not
accepted afterwards.
Note
to students with disabilities:
If you have a documented disability which will make it difficult for you to carry out the work as I have outlined and/or if you need special accommodations/assistance due to a disability, please contact the office of services for persons with persons disabilities (OSPD), Emilia Remirez-Schunior Hall, Room 1.101 immediately, or the Associate Director at Maureen@utpa.edu, ext. 7005. Appropriate arrangements/accommodations can be arranged.
Verification of disability and processing of special services required, such as notetakers, extended time tests, separate accommodations for testing, will be determined by OSPD. Please do not assume adjustments/accommodations are impossible.
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Week |
Topic |
Presenter |
Activity or
Assignment Due |
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1 |
Introduction Role of IT in industry |
Dr. Abraham |
Paper assignment Write a paper on the influence of IT in your major field of study or profession. Due next week. |
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2 |
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Each assignment is due the following week. |
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3 |
Components of a Computer |
Dr. Abraham |
Assignment 2
How does a computer work Due: Next Class period |
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4 |
Memory (Internal & External) Addressing Modes |
Dr. Abraham |
Assignment 3 Cache |
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4 |
Processor Structure & Operations of an accumulator machine 1 IA-32 Processor Architecture 1 Assembly Language 1 choice |
Armando Carrion Max Magee |
Assignment 3
Assembly language program Binary Math |
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6 |
Operating System (Process & Threads) 1 CPU Scheduling & Deadlock 1 |
Juan Salazar |
Assignment 5 Imaginary computer Instruction set |
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7 |
Operating System Unix 2 (choice) TCP/IP 2 |
Jose Herrera & Abdiel Leon Moises Fores & Micah Batsell |
Assignment 6 Unix Script |
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8 |
Exam I Router installation 3 |
Ayme
Pena, Daniel Rebollar, Dante Garcia |
Exam |
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9 |
Networks - Windows 2003 2 Active Directory 1/2 |
Citlalli Garcia & Oscar Mendoza Jennifer Garcia Onesimo Trevino |
Assignment 8 Peer-Peer Network -group |
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9 |
Database Theory 1 |
Luis Munoz |
Assignment 9 Relational design |
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10 |
Database Creation & Maintenance 2 choice |
Alfredo Pena & Emmanual Rocha |
Assignment 10 Database creation |
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11 |
Visual Basic Programming Introduction 1 choice Java Programming Introduction 1 choice |
Marcos Ochoa Ruben
Dominguez |
Assignment 11 Breakup numbers |
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12 |
Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems 1 |
Lu Peng |
Assignment 12 Family tree, Prolog |
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13 |
Web Programming 2 (also create web for chamber) E-Commerce 1 choice |
Hussain
Bekka & Samuel Morin David
Rios |
Assignment 13 Web page with Script |
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14 |
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15 |
Final Exam |
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Learning outcomes: