New Jersey Institute of Technology
College of Computing Sciences
CIS365: File Structures and Management, Fall 2002
Sections 101 & 103 - Professor Bieber

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CIS365 Fall '02 Schedule (Newark Sections)

Version 2.2 - 9/11/02

Date
Class Topic
Class
Presentations
Homework
(due this class)
Readings/COBOL Exercises
(by this class)
9/3

Introduction to the Course;
Getting Started with COBOL

9/10

Logical File Organization;
Fundamental File Operations;
COBOL debugging

Homework 1 (getting to know you; photo; on-line setup),
Homework 2 (team matchmaking)

Hubbel: Introduction, 1, 2, 3, 4
Uckan: Ch: FFC, Sec 1: Logical Organization
Uckan: Ch: FFC, Sec 2: Fundamental Operations on Files (except File Update)
9/17

File Types;
File Systems;
Physical File Organization;
Fetching

Case Studies/Articles: tba
COBOL Corner: tba

Hubbel: 5, 6, 7 (STRING only), 8
Uckan: Ch: FFC, Sec 3: Physical Data Organization
9/24

Sequential Files;
Variable-length Records;
Multi-Record Files

Case Studies/Articles: tba
COBOL Corner: tba

Homework 3 (fundamental file operations exercise)

Hubbel: 9, 10, 11, 12
Uckan: Ch: Sequential File Organization
10/1

Traditional File Update

Case Studies/Articles: tba
COBOL Corner: tba

Homework 4 (data files and reports program set)

Hubbel: 13, 19, 20
Uckan: Ch: FFC, Sec 2: just File Update
(note Updated Traditional File Update Algorithm)

10/8

Indexes
{collaborative midterm starts this week}

Case Studies/Articles: tba
COBOL Corner: tba

Homework 5 (file update exercise and program)

Hubbel: 18 (not Indexed Update)
Uckan: Ch: Indexed Sequential (not ISAM)
10/15

Midterm

10/22

Review midterm;
Semester Project introduction;
Indexed Files, cont.
Relative File Organization

Case Studies/Articles: tba
COBOL Corner: tba

Hubbel: 14, 15, 16 (not Relative Files), 18 (indexed Update)
10/29

Relative File Organization, cont.

Case Studies/Articles: tba
COBOL Corner: tba

Homework 6 (indexed files exercise and program)

Hubbel: 16 (Relative Files)
Uckan: Relative File Organization
11/5

Semester Project Check

Homework 7 (relative file exercise)

11/12

Linked Lists

Case Studies/Articles: tba
COBOL Corner: tba

Semester Project design

Uckan: Logical File Organization Techniques: Linear Files
11/19

Guest Lecture

Case Studies/Articles: tba
COBOL Corner: tba

Homework 8 (linked lists)

12/3

Project Presentations

All Semester Project reports

12/10

Project Presentations
{collaborative final starts this week}

12/17

Final Exam

last minor update: 9/11/2002 - Version 2.2, with slight modifcations to topics and fixing homework #3
last significant update: 9/6/2002
last update to teams: n/a

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