Computing for Biomedical Scientists

Assignments

LEC #	Topics	Assignments
Part 1: Introduction to Computing
1	Course Overview
2	Algorithms and Object Oriented Programming
3	Java® Constructs
4	Built-in Operators, Built-in Java Classes, and Classes, Objects & Methods
5	Recursion and Iteration, Imperative & Declarative Programming, Abstract Data Types (ADTs), Arrays, and Classes, Object & Methods (continued)	Homework #1 (PDF)
6	Designing Methods, Wrapper Classes, Arrays, Packages, Inheritance, Derived Classes, and Dynamic Binding
7	Information Hiding, Exceptions	Homework #2 (PDF)
8	Vectors, Streams, Input and Output
9	Searching and Sorting	Homework #3 (PDF) Stubs for Homework #3 (PDF)
10	Time Complexity of Algorithms
11	Review Session	Homework #4 (PDF)
Part 2: Data and Knowledge Representation
12	Logic and Medical Ontology
13	Boolean Algebra and Predicate Knowledge
14	Ontology and Data Model	Homework #5 (PDF) Homework #5 Attachments (PDF)
15	Medical Vocabulary Representation and Survey of Medical Coding Systems
16	Medical Coding Systems (continued) and UMLS	Homework #6 (PDF)
17	Major KR Schemes
18	Process	Homework #7 (PDF)
Part 3: Data Management, Querying and Retrieval
19	Nature of Data
20	Data Models
21	Maintaining Integrity of Data	Homework #8 Due (PDF)
22	Implementing a Relational Database
23	Overview of Object Oriented Data Management	Homework #9 Due (PDF) Homework #9 Sample Patient Data (PDF)
24	Modeling for Analytical Processing of Data
25	No Lecture, Final Project Due	Final Project Description (PDF)