Higher Education :

1988 to 1990 :

Bolton Institute of Higher Education
Deane Road,
BOLTON, Lancashire,
United Kingdom. BL3 5AB
(University status attained in April 2004)

Course :

Full-Time Higher National Diploma
BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies

Website :

www.bolton.ac.uk

Position :

Student

Awarded :

DISTINCTION (overall first over the 2 years) certificates

Primary IT Skills Used :

Programming Languages
(VAX):

PASCAL, SQL, ORACLE, DBASE3, COBOL74
Various DEC VAX Utilities / FMS (Form Management System)

Operating
Systems :

VAX / VMS Operating System
MS-DOS

Other :

N/A

Modules Studied:

The HND course I attended at BIHE was a 2-year, full-time course made up of the following modules:

• Computer Systems Architecture
• Programming Methodology Theory / Practice (VAX)
• Data Processing
• Business Studies
• Quantitative Techniques
• Systems Analysis
• Business Information Systems Theory / Practice

Final Year Project :

My final year project consisted of an ORACLE SQL-forms designed GUI interface running under an MS-DOS operating system. The GUI interface provided traditional insert, update, delete and transaction rollback facilities for recording information about students attending courses at BIHE, along with their module assignment and exam result details. The student data was held in an ORACLE SQL database set-up on a PC local to the application. The tables were designed in accordance with Third Normal Form (TNF) design methodology in order to cancel out repeating student data. The resulting application catered for both snapshot and historical reports. Systems analysis work was carried out using SSADM (Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology).

Click here to view excerpts from my final year project.