The materialcovered in the course will include in a comparative study, the features of Windows 98, UNIX, Windows NT and other current operating systems. Their respective environments and their accommodations of programming and networking related issues will be studied at length. Available file systems, tools utilities, as well as debuggers and other supporting tools are discussed on a comparative basis. It is recommended that this course be completed in the Sophomore or Junior year. The main part of the course covers the main models of data - the relational model, the network model and the hierarchical model.
Emphasis is on the relational model.
Current Database Management Systems Overview, as well as SQL Basics and Standards are covered as well. Computer Science 251. Offered fall semester. Elements of microcomputer hardware and software. Basic digital electronics, microprocessor architecture, assembler language programming, introduction to interfacing.