Computing for Biomedical Scientists

Calendar

LEC #	Topics
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)
6	Designing Methods, Wrapper Classes, Arrays, Packages, Inheritance, Derived Classes, and Dynamic Binding
7	Information Hiding, Exceptions
8	Vectors, Streams, Input and Output
9	Searching and Sorting
10	Time Complexity of Algorithms
11	Review Session
Part 2: Data and Knowledge Representation
12	Logic and Medical Ontology
13	Boolean Algebra and Predicate Knowledge
14	Ontology and Data Model
15	Medical Vocabulary Representation and Survey of Medical Coding Systems
16	Medical Coding Systems (continued) and UMLS
17	Major KR Schemes
18	Process
Part 3: Data Management, Querying and Retrieval
19	Nature of Data
20	Data Models
21	Maintaining Integrity of Data
22	Implementing a Relational Database
23	Overview of Object-oriented Data Management
24	Modeling for Analytical Processing of Data
25	No Lecture, Final Project Due