Information Technologies

The course will introduce basic and fundamental programming constructs and techniques through using the C++ programming language in order to generate algorithmic solutions to problems. Upon completion of the course, students will learn an introduction to algorithms, solving problems by flowcharts and pseudo codes, header files, data types, arithmetic & logic operators, control statements (if, if/else, switch-case) and use them as inner statements, loop statements (while, do/while, for),  functions,  standard functions of programming language, random number generation and their area of use, user-defined functions, global and local variables, recursion, arrays, searching algorithms on arrays, sorting algorithms on arrays, pointers, pointer operators, using pointers with arrays and functions. In the laboratory hours, students are writing full programs or modifying existing programs for other solutions.

Data mining has emerged as one of the most exciting fields in Computer Science because of the growth of computerized data collections, which become more and more available in our modern digitalized world. Data mining have roots in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning (including classification, prediction, and clustering), statistical data analysis, data visualization and information retrieval. By completion of this course, students learn about different data mining methods such as classification, rule-based learning, decision trees and association rules. Students also learn about data selection and cleaning, machine learning techniques to “learn” about the “hidden” patterns in data, and the reporting and visualization of the resulting knowledge.