It combines technical aspects with practical business applications without resorting to a rigorous mathematical approach. The study of Pictorial Information Systems is applicable to a variety of areas dealing with representation, storage, retrieval, manipulation, and communication of business information. Legal and ethical aspects of software and human factors are discussed. Searches, reporting, subprograms, random files, indexed sequential files, various sorting routines, debugging techniques, programming style, optimization techniques, structured and modular programming concepts, transferability and portability strategies, and documentation, including writing program specifications and users' manuals. Credit can be earned only by nonbusiness undergraduate majors or by graduate students meeting a programming language requirement.
Most organizations use computers for operations, control and planning, and for office automation.
Although computers facilitate and enhance the functioning of organizations, they do add to the responsibilities of managers. In this course, students learn how to acquire, organize, monitor, and control information resources. The course also discusses problems unique to the management of information resources. Introduction to assembly language. Data format, storage allocation, symbolic programming, macro definition, data movement and branching, arithmetic operations, editing, tables, indexing, subroutines, program linkage, and interrupts.