BSc (Hons) Computing

This course will introduce you to the fundamentals of programming and object orientation, including the following basic ideas of programming, including: variables, memory and assignment statements, control through conditional statements, loops, functions and procedures, objects and classes, instance variables and methods, arrays, user interaction interaction between objects, inheritance, and polymorphism.

This module is an introduction to the basic concepts essential in the design and implementation of client-side web-based applications; it will cover a basic introduction to the Web, followed by more detailed lectures and labs on current best practice such as HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.

This course examines key concepts of capital, and multiple different perspectives for examining these capitals. It explores the grounding of capital types in economic systems, societal norms, and their creative and cultural roles.
The module provides the theoretical foundations for students to understand the creation and interplay of intellectual, social, cultural, and economic resources.

This course addresses multiple capital types: physical capital (natural resources), social capital (bonding/bridging capital and strong/weak ties), human capital (education, skills, and investment therein), and financial capital (access to finance, operation of debt, equity and working capital). Over the spread of the module, students will develop their knowledge of these capitals alongside frameworks to understand their different forms, their flows and interdependencies.

The module examines how different forms of capital are acquired, maintained, enhanced and exchanged, and the role that networks, evaluation materials and legal systems play. By tracing the historical context of different societal mechanisms to create and distribute capital, students can appreciate how current theories of capital in our digital revolution age are constructed and contested.

This module gives a broad introduction to the creation of digital media and rich media websites and applications. It covers both the technical issues of programming with media, and the contextual topics of project management and designing applications to a particular commercial (or other) brief.

Business Statistics aims to provide students with quantitative literacy skills to enable them to search out numerical information, understand it, critique it, reflect upon it, and apply it in making decisions.

This module introduces students to the principles and concepts of statistics when applied to business computing activities and challenges. It will equip students with quantitative skills necessary for them to interpret, analyse and communicate information derived from numerical data.

The module will equip students with an understanding of how to present business numerical information in a variety of formats, and give them an understanding of the tools necessary to present such information. The module theme is to look at numerical data in a variety of forms, to determine the ‘story’ that this data is telling and to tell that ‘story’ to others.

Subjects covered by the module will include some or all of the following:

• Data classification, tabulation and presentation
• Measures of central tendency, dispersion, skew Probability, sampling, and distributions
• Hypothesis testing
• Correlation and regression
• Time series and forecasting

The subject knowledge in this module will be presented in a context relevant for business and/or computer science.

This module will introduce the concepts behind computer based systems, including their role within organizations (businesses, charities, government) and their potential and actual impact on people and society. It will cover the use of computer based systems, professional roles interacting with such systems, and introduce students to legal and ethical considerations around the development and deployment of computer based systems.

This module covers an introduction to programming in the context of computer based systems, using applications in the domain of computer based systems to reinforce and extend fundamentals of programming. Students will be expected to work through and adapt case studies of computer based systems programming, and produce a substantial programme as an assessed coursework.

This module covers:

• Program development on a primary (Java) and secondary platform (Android)
• Fundamental data structures and algorithms
• Computational complexity, run-time efficiency
• OO design and implementation
• General features of programming languages eg type, abstract data types, the memory model, virtual machines, scope
• Libraries
• Specific language features: primitive and reference types, class and instance variables, overloading, string manipulation, input and output streams, serialisation, internet connectivity, error handling, generics, threads, memory management
• Advanced software techniques: concurrency, internet programming, GUI and event driven programming
• Android application development

This module aims to develop both your critical understanding and your practical skill relating to emergent platforms such as social media, crowdsourcing and citizen sensing.

While society comes to rely on these platforms and algorithms for 'truth claims', we will question the way they construct knowledge. We will examine their unnoticed or invisible aspects, and consider how to use them for different purposes. As these socio-technical assemblages always have the potential to harm as well as to help, and we will pay attention to their ethical application.

The emphasis of this module is not on technical proficiency but on the ability to make meaning through the use of different forms of online apparatus. The teaching will combine lectures and practical experimentation.

This module focuses on the technology underpinning modern web, internet and client-server applications. This includes relational database systems, mainly from a development perspective, emphasising issues related to data modelling and database implementation in SQL and alternatives such as No SQL. It includes practical work related to programming client-server web applications with a focus on principles and up to date practices.

This module will give students the opportunity to experience group work, in the context of projects to specify, develop, deploy and evaluate a computer based system. This module will take students through the entire process, from requirements gathering, user-centred design, proposal development, implementation and evaluation. Students will also assess their outputs from the perspective of multiple roles within an organization, and consider the potential impact of their system on customers, users and society at large

This module aims to provide you with an understanding of the need for computer security and the technologies that support it. It has both a theoretical component that will teach you mathematical underpinnings of security systems and a practical element that will help you discover the pitfalls of security design and to comprehend the mathematics underlying the protocols by programming small examples.

This module will cover the details of the operations of computer networks, including the layered standards that implement the Internet stack; application-layer protocols using that networking stack; and practical issues (such as availability, fault-tolerance and privacy) in the deployment of networked applications and systems.

This module will allow students to apply everything that they have learnt through the course of their degree to a substantial individual project. Students, guided individually by members of Department staff, will be responsible for analyzing a computer based system need, specifying a solution to meet the need, design, implement, test and evaluate the solution. Students will be responsible for managing their own time, setting milestones, producing deliverables and writing reports, with the support of an individual supervisor, lab assistants and the Department as a whole.