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Scope of philosophy; notions, meanings, branches and problems of philosophy. Logic as an indispensable tool of philosophy. Elements of syllogism, symbolic logic— the first nine rules of inference. Informal fallacies, laws of thought, nature of arguments. Valid and invalid arguments, logic of form and logic of content — deduction, induction and inferences. Creative and critical thinking. Impact of philosophy on human existence. Philosophy and politics, philosophy and human conduct, philosophy and religion, philosophy and human values, philosophy and character molding, and many others.

Basic concepts of compiler, Application of regular expressions in lexical scanners, Parsing (concrete and abstract syntax, abstract syntax trees), Application of context-free grammars in table-driven and recursive-descent parsing, Symbol table management, code generation by tree walking, Compilation approaches – Multi pass, Single Pass, Load and Go; Compiler implementation - Scanning, syntax directed table driven, Architecture-specific operations: instruction selection and register allocation, Optimization techniques and The use of tools in support of the translation process and the advantages of Program libraries and separate compilation Building syntax-directed tools.

Development, implementation and evaluation of public health information systems, and application of information technology to public health practice, research and learning. Introduction of public health disease surveillance systems (including their interaction with electronic health records), public health practice support systems, public health disaster and emergency systems, health consumers’ informatics for disease self-management and prevention.

Introduction and overview of the module; the nature of ITH research; Definition of research. Literature searches, information gathering; Reading and understanding research papers. Technical writing, referencing, bibliographies. Presentation skills, written and oral. Choosing or proposing a project. Project planning, tools and techniques for planning. Project conduct, time management, risk management, team working. Commercial and economic considerations in IT research and IT industry. Review of legal, ethical, social and professional (LSEP) issues including data protection and standards.

Introduction to the use of computers for processing, organising, retrieving and utilising biomedical information at the molecular, biological system, clinical and healthcare organisation levels. Description of essential concepts in biomedical informatics that are derived from medicine, computer science and the social sciences.

Content management, content deployment (file system planning and structure), server administration and management, user and group management, backup management, security management, disaster recovery, resource management, automation management (automatic job scheduling), site management notebooks and documents, system support, user support and education; administrative domains – web domain, network domain, database domain, operating systems domain, and support domain; secure installation; removing unnecessary components; file system maintenance (isolation of sensitive data); user restrictions (access and authorisations); user/group/file management; password standards and requirements; shutting down unnecessary/unneeded services; closing unnecessary/unneeded ports; patch management/software updates; virtualisation; vulnerability scanning.

System Analysis Fundamentals: Introducing SA&D; SA&D concepts, Roles of system analyst; The system development life cycle, Using CASE tools; Depicting system graphically, determining feasibility, activity planning and control; Information requirements analysis: Sampling and investigating data, interviewing. Prototyping; The analysis process Using data flow diagram; Using data dictionaries; Describing process specifications and structured decisions; The system proposal; The essentials of design designing output; designing input’ Designing the file or database Designing the user interface Designing data; Documenting the design phase; Software engineering and implementation Quality assurance through software engineering; Implementing the information system.

Software Design Concepts and principles, design of software quality, abstraction, refinement, modularity, software architecture, control hierarchy, structural partitioning, data structure. Design methodology, data, architectural, transformation mapping. Post processing design; optimization; interface design, Foundations of human-computer interaction: Human-centered development and evaluation. Procedural design: structure programming, graphical notation, tabular notation. Program Design Language (PDL), A PDL example, Object-oriented design: Concept of patterns and the use of APIs; modeling tools such as class diagrams, CRC cards, and UML use cases, Software: re-use and re-engineering, Client/server Software Development, Computer aided Software Development.

Opportunity Identification (Sources of business opportunities in Nigeria, Environmental scanning, Demand and supply gap/unmet needs/market gaps/Market Research, Unutilised resources, Social and climate conditions and Technology adoption gap). New business development (business planning, market research). Entrepreneurial Finance (Venture capital, Equity finance, Micro finance, Personal savings, Small business investment organisations and Business plan competition). Entrepreneurial marketing and e-commerce (Principles of marketing, Customer Acquisition & Retention, B2B, C2C and B2C models of e-commerce, First Mover Advantage, E- commerce business models and Successful E-Commerce Companies,). Small Business Management/Family Business: Leadership & Management, Basic book keeping, Nature of family business and Family Business Growth Model. Negotiation and Business communication (Strategy and tactics of negotiation/bargaining, Traditional and modern business communication methods). Opportunity Discovery Demonstrations (Business idea generation presentations, Business idea Contest, Brainstorming sessions, Idea pitching). Technological Solutions (The Concept of Market/Customer Solution, Customer Solution and Emerging Technologies, Business Applications of New Technologies - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual/Mixed Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoTs), Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Renewable Energy and many others. Digital Business and E-Commerce Strategies).

1. Topics in HTML, CSS3, JavaScript a. Event handling. b. Positioning and centering, overlapping and displaying a popup box, and dimming an area and disabling events over an area. c. Reading data from the user and sending the data to the server d. Iframe 2. Dynamic Web Applications a. 3-tier architecture for web applications b. MVC (Model-View-Controller) model 3. Server-Side Scripting using PHP a. Control statements b. Strings and numbers c. Arrays d. Functions 4. MySQL DBMS a. SQL statements for data manipulation b. Introduction to MySQL c. How to use PHP to access MySQL 5. Functions Advanced Web Programming a. Secure communication and encryption/decryption b. Regular expression c. Session management and timeout d. Pushing data to client e. Asynchronous communications with JSON, XML, and AJAX f. Server-Sent Event (SSE) g. Development of API using classes and objects