Information Engineering
1. Von Neumann’s computer architecture; central processing unit, memories, peripherals,
relationships between them and their function.
2. Data and instructions representation in the computer.
3. Interrupts as means of memory and peripherals control.
4. Security and redundancy of data, coding of logical, numerical and textual information,
creating composite data types using simple data types.
5. Boolean algebra, basic logic operations and their realization using logic circuits.
6. Analysis and synthesis of logic circuits. Combinational and sequential logic circuits.
7. Object, class of objects, collection of objects, relationships between objects. Object-
oriented computational model. Object-oriented programming languages.
8. Software implementation using the rules of object-oriented programming. Rapid
application development and event-driven programming.
9. Polymorphism in modern programming languages. Liskov’s substitution principles.
Implementation inheritance vs. Interface inheritance.
10. Advanced techniques of object-oriented design. Design patterns. Refactoring.
11. Special data structures. Queue, stack, tree – where and how to use them. Their
implementation in structured and object-oriented languages.
12. Data look up and sorting algorithms and their implementation in structured and object-
oriented languages.
13. Relational and object data models in the contemporary database systems and their
relation.
14. Formal techniques of relational and object database design. Database normalization.
15. Querying in relational and object database systems. Principles of SQL and OQL query
languages.
16. Operating system as a manager of processes and resources. Types of operating systems,
data storage organization and file systems.
17. File systems of UNIX-like operating systems. Processes in UNIX-like operating systems.
18. Structured analysis and design, diagrams used for data modelling, diagrams used for
functional modelling.
19. Information systems development life cycle, life cycle phases, life cycle types.
20. Modern approaches to software design. Agile methodologies, extreme programming.
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