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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2020/2021

Main References:
1. M. H. Fulekar and B. Pandey (2013).
SIV 2013 OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING Bioinstrumentation. K International Publishing House.
2. S. Bejugam and V. R. Meka (2012).
This course aims to introduce the concept of object- BioInstrumentation: Tremor Quantification and
oriented programming. It covers the introduction of object- Parameter Extraction. LAP LAMBERT Academic
oriented (OO) programming paradigm such as OO Publishing.
concepts (class, property, method, etc.), constructor, 3. G. Karp (2013). Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts
destructor, operator overloading, functions, class template, and Experiments. Wiley.
data abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, exception
handling, pointers, recursion and linked list data structure.
Various problems related to Bioinformatics are considered SIV 3008 INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHIC
to be solved using OO programming language such as C++ INFORMATION SYSTEMS
or Java.
This course provides an introduction to the theory and
Assessment Methods: practice of geographic information systems (GIS). This
Continuous Assessment: 60% course will introduce some of the basic concepts of GIS,
Final Examination: 40% input of data, storage and management of data and
modelling output from GIS. Concepts such as how to model
Medium of Instruction: the complex real world in a computer and the difference
English between data and geographic data are covered. Lectures
cover the basics of GIS, vector and raster data models,
Main References: geographic data analysis, visualisation techniques and
1. Walter Savitch (2013). Absolute C++. Fifth Edition. geographic overlay. The practical sessions build basic skills
Pearson. in GIS such as adding, visualising, analysing and modelling
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2. Walter Savitch (2012). Problem Solving with C++. 7 data and creating effective map layouts.
ed. Addison Wesley.
3. Tore Samuelsson (2012). Genomics and Assessment Methods:
Bioinformatics: An Introduction to Programming Tools Continuous Assessment: 60%
for Life Scientists. Cambridge University Press. Final Examination: 40%

Medium of Instruction:
SIV 2014 HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION English

This course introduces the concepts of human-computer Main References:
interaction, interaction design process, implementation 1. Ian Heywood ,Sarah Cornelius (2011). An Introduction
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support, evaluation techniques and current issues in HCI to Geographical Information Systems. 4 ed. Prentice
such as mobile interface design and interactive web-based Hall.
systems. 2. John R Jensen, Ryan R. Jensen (2013). Introductory
Geographic Information Systems. Pearson.
Assessment Methods: 3. Keith C. Clarke (2011). Getting Started with
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Continuous Assessment: 40% Geographic Information Systems, 5 ed. Prentice Hall.
Final Examination: 60%

Medium of Instruction: SIV 3009 INTERNET PROGRAMMING
English
This course aims to introduce the World Wide Web (WWW),
Main References: web software, connections and hardware, introduction to
1. Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers, and Helen Sharp. internet programming and scripting, website maintenance
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer and Web applications. It covers an introduction to internet
Interaction. John Wiley. programming and the languages. Topics include HTML,
2. Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd, and Russel XHTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, CGI, Perl,
Beale (2013). Human- Computer Interaction. Prentice and SQL. Besides that, the basic concepts of WWW client-
Hall. server communications and the skills to use the above tool
3. Ben Schneiderman. Designing the User Interface: to create Web applications will be also introduced. Various
Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. problems related to Bioinformatics such as query, search
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5 ed. Addison Wesley. and retrieve information are considered to be solved using
internet programming languages.

SIV 3007 INSTRUMENTATION IN BIOLOGICAL Assessment Methods:
SCIENCES Continuous Assessment: 60%
Final Examination: 40%
This course is going to introduce basic techniques and skills
in biological experiments and instrumentation. It will cover Medium of Instruction:
the basic biochemistry, genetics, molecular, physical English
biochemistry experimental techniques to answer biological
questions. Main References:
1. Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram, Gunther
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Birznieks (2012). CGI Programming with Perl. 2 Ed.
Assessment Methods: O’Reilly Media.
Continuous Assessment: 100% 2. Mitchell L Model (2013). Bioinformatics Programming
Using Python. O’Reilly Media.
Medium of Instruction: 3. Ethan Cerami (2013). XML for Bioinformatics.
English Springer.

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