Students should embark on work that will lead to substantial software development under 

the supervision of a member of staff. 

Basic Definitions and Uses, Simulation Process, Some basic statistic Distributions Theory, 

Model and Simulation. Queues; Basic components, Kendal notation, Queuing rules, Little’s Law, Queuing networks, Special/types of queues. Stochastic Processes; Discrete state and continuous state processes, Markov processes, Birth-Death Processes, Poisson Processes. Random Numbers; types of Random Number Exercises.

Foundations of HCI, Principles of GUI, GUI toolkits; Human-centred software evaluation and development; GUI design and programming.

Introduction: Definitions, Motivation; Communication Mechanisms: Communication 

Protocols, RPC, RMI, Stream Oriented Communication; Synchronization: Global State, Election, Distributed Mutual Exclusion, Distributed Transactions; Naming: Generic Schemes, DNS, Naming and Localization; Replication and Coherence: Consistency Models And Protocols; Fault Tolerance: Group Communication, Two-And Three-Phase Commit, Check pointing; Security: Access Control, Key Management, Cryptography;  etc

Team Management, Project Scheduling, Software measurement and estimation techniques, 

Risk analysis, Software quality assurance, Software Configuration Management, Project Management tools.

Grammars and languages, recognizers, Top-down and bottom-up language Run-time 

storage Organization, The use of display in run-time storage Organization. The use of display in run time storage allocation. LR grammars and analysers. Construction of LR table. Organisation of symbol tablets. Allocation of storage to run-time variables. Code generation. Optimisation/Translator with systems.

Measurement techniques, simulation techniques; techniques, workload characterization, 

performance evaluation in selection problems, performance evaluation in design problems, evaluation of programme performance.

Topics from process improvement ; software re-engineering configuration management; 

Formal specification, software cost – estimation, Software architecture, Software patterns, Software Reuse and Open source development.

Software Design: Software architecture, Design Patterns, O. O. analysis & Design, Design 

for re-use. Using APIS: API programming Class browsers and related tools, Component based computing. Software tools and Environment: Requirements analysis and design modelling Tools, Testing tools, Tool integration mech.

Student’s Industrial work experience of 3 months’ duration. Students’ reports will be 

presented in a seminar.

Overview of programming languages: History of programming languages, Brief survey of 

programming paradigms (Procedural languages, Object-oriented languages, Functional languages, Declarative – non-algorithmic languages, Scripting languages), the effects of scale on programming methodology; Language Description:

Activation records and storage management, Type parameters and parameterized types, Modules in programming languages; Object oriented language paradigm; Functional and logic language paradigms.

Review of compilers assemblers and interpreters, structure and functional aspects of a 

typical compiler, syntax semantics and, functional relationship between lexical analysis, expression analysis and code generation. Internal form of course programme. Use of a standard compiler (FORTRAN<COBOL/PL) as a working vehicles. Error detection and recovery. Grammars and Languages: the parsing problem. The scanner.

Fundamental building blocks, logic expressive immunization, sum of product forms. 

Register transfer notation, Physical considerations. Data representation, and number bases, Fixed and Floating point systems, representation memory systems organization and architecture.

Concurrency: States & State diagrams Structures, Dispatching and Context Switching; 

interrupts; Concurrent execution; Mutual exclusion problem and some solutions Deadlock;Producer – Consumer Problems & Synchronization.

Memory Management: Overlays, Swapping and Partitions, Paging & Segmentations Placement & replacement policies, working sets and Trashing, Caching.

Basic OOP Concepts: Classes, Objects, inheritance, polymorphism, Data Abstraction, 

Tools for developing, Compiling, interpreting and debugging, Java Programs, Java Syntax and data objects, operators. Central flow constructs, objects and classes programming, Arrays, methods. Exceptions, Applets and the Abstract, OLE, Persistence, Window Toolkit, Laboratory exercises in an OOP Language.

Require 3 months of Industrial Training. Students’ experience will be documented and 

presented in a Seminar.

Computer circuits; diode arrays, PIAs etc, Integrated circuits fabrication process. Use of 

MSI, LSI and VLSI IC’ hardware Design. Primary and Secondary memories; core memory, etc. Magnetic devices; disks, tapes, video disks etc. Peripheral devices; printers, CRT’s, keyboards, character recognition. Operational amplifiers; Analog-to- digital and Digital-to-analog converter

Overview of O/S: Role & Purpose, Functionality Mechanisms to Support Client- server 

models, hand-held devices, Design Issues influences of Security, 

networking, multimedia, Windows. 

O/S Principles: Structuring methods, Abstraction, processes of resources, 

 Concept of APIS Device organization interrupts.

Principles of good programming, structured programming concepts, Debugging and 

testing, string processing, internal searching and sorting, recursion. Use a programming language different from that in CSC 201. E.g. C-Language

Classification of microbial products by use. Relationship between primary and secondary metabolism; characteristics, sources and strain improvement of industrial microorganisms. Microbial growth and product formation in industrial processes; media for industrial fermentations. Foaming, Major products of Industrial Microbiology: enzyme production and immobilization; production of vitamins, amino acids, antibiotics, organic acids, beer and wine

 Study of some microbial pathogens of plants and animals with emphasis on those prevalent 

in Nigeria. The geographical distribution, isolation, identification, morphology, life cycle, source of infection, transmission and the host. Ecology, clinical manifestations of specific bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens of man.

Advanced ecology, taxonomy, biochemistry and analytical technology of bacteria, yeasts, 

fungi and viruses associated with food spoilage, food-borne diseases and fermentations. Emphasis on new developments in Food Microbiology; economic consequences of microorganisms in food; exploitation of micro-organisms in novel processes for the production of food ingredients.

Detailed literature search followed by presentation at a departmental Seminar of a scientific 

topic, which must be of microbiological or biotechnological interest.

Principles of microbial deterioration of materials. Materials subject to microbial 

deterioration: Foods, Jet fuels, paper, paints, textiles and leather, metals etc. Factors 

favouring deterioration of materials. Major microbial groups involved in deterioration. 

Impact of processing and new technologies on biodeterioration. Biodeterioration Control.

The characteristics of soil environment; microbial flora and fauna of soil; microbial

activities in soil; Nitrogen cycle, mineral transformation by micro-organisms. Ecological 

relationship among soil pathogens. Effect of pesticides on soil micro-organisms. 

Biodegradation and biofuels generation. Microbiology of the rhizosphere.

The morphology, life cycle and biochemical characteristics of bacteria. Systematic study 

of bacteria and other prokaryotes, their nature, characteristics, identification and isolation.

Students will be posted to industrial establishments such as food processing, brewing, etc.

History of the Science of Microbiology. Sterilization and disinfection; Structure, ecology 

and reproduction of representative microbial genera. Cultivation of micro-organisms. 

Isolation of micro-organisms; isolation of bacteria, viruses.