School of Computing and Informatics

BSc in Computer Science

Text Books 2012
Year 1
CSC 111 Introduction to Computer Systems
Core texts
Computer organization and architecture: Designing for performance by William stallings
Additional Reference texts
Structured computer organization, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Pearson Education
Computer Systems Organization & Architecture John Carpinelli
Computer Systems Design & Architecture Vincent P. Heuring & Hary Jordan

CSC 112 Introduction to Programming

Core texts
Programming with C, Second Edition, Byron Gottfried. (2003). Tata McGraw-Hill.
C- How to program Fourth edition by H.M. Deitel and P.J. Deitel
Programming in C and C++ by S.S. Khadare

CSC 113 Discrete Mathematics

Core texts
Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists by J.Truss, Addison Wesley

Additional Reference texts

Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition) by Ronald L. Graham
(Author), Donald E. Knuth (Author), Oren Patashnik (Author)
Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Kreyszig, 8th Edition, Wiley
Discrete Mathematics with Graph Theory by E.G. Goodaire

CSC 114 Differential & Integral Calculus

Core texts
H Anton (1980): Calculus with Analytic Geometry, John Wiley and Sons (Rasna)
Additional Reference texts
Calculus by R. Smith and R. Minton
An Introduction to Calculus by R. J. Cowen
Pure Mathematics 1 by J. Buckhouse

CSC121 Programming and Problem-solving

Core texts

CSC 122 Database Systems

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Core texts
Connolly, Begg and strachan, Database Systems: A practical approach to design implementation
and management, Addison Wesley
Additional Reference texts
An Introduction to Database Systems, by Date, Addison Wesley
Fundamentals of Database Systems Elmasri & Navathe Addison Wesley

CSC 123 Data Communication

Core texts
William Stallings - Data and computer communications, Prentice Hall international, inc.
Fred Halsal - Data communications, computer networks and open systems, Addison Wesley.
Computer networks, Andrew S. Tanenbaum Fourth Edition, Pearson Education
Additional Reference texts
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Computer Networks, Prentice Hall international, inc.
Forouzan Data Communications and Networking, The McGraw-Hill Companies
Fitzgerald and Dennis - Business Data Communications and Networking
Computer Networking and the Internet F. Halsall
Computer Networks and Internets, with Internet applications by Douglas Comer

CSC 124 Probability & Statistics

Core texts
Introduction to Probability by C.M. Grinstead and J. L. Snell
Additional Reference texts
Probability and Statistics by A. Papoulis, Prentice Hall 1990 (Rasna)
Gerald Keller, Brain Warrack, Statistics for Management and Economics, 5th Edition, Duxbury
Thomson Learning, ISBN 0-534-36830-1
C Chatfield (1983): Statistics for Technology, 3rd Edition, Chapman & Hall
Probability and statistics, N.R. Spiegel

CSC 125 Linear Algebra

Core texts
Introduction to Linear Algebra, 3rd Edition, by Gilbert Strang, Wellesley-Cambridge Press
Additional Reference texts

CSC 126 Physics for Computer Science

CCS 001 Communication Skills

CCS 009 Elements of Economics

CCS010 HIV Aids

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Year 2
CSC 211 Data Structures & Algorithms
Core texts
Algorithms in C by Robert Sedgewick ISBN-10: 0201314525 ISBN-13: 978-0201314526

Additional Reference texts

Data structures and algorithms by Harowitz and Sahni (DOO)
Data Abstraction and Structures by David Riley(DOO)
Data Structures with ADT 's & Pascal by Stubbs and Webre(DOO)
Data structures and algorithms in C++ by Adam Drodzek
Data Structures and Algorithms by A.V. Aho
Data Structures and Algorithms Analysis in C by Mark Allen Weiss
Data structures and other objects using C++ by Main and savich
Data Structures and Program design by R. Kruse

CSC 212 Systems Analysis & Design

Core texts
Whitten, Bentley, Dittman, Systems Analysis & Design Methods, Fifth Edition, Irwin McGraw-Hill
Jeffrey A., Hoffer, Joey F. George, Joseph S. Valachi: Modern Systems Analysis and Design
Second Edition,1999. Addison-Wesley Publishers ISBN 0-201-33841-6
Additional Reference texts
Practical SSADM by Phili Weaver
Systems Analysis and Design by K.E.Kendall

CSC 213 Computer Architecture

Core texts
Stallings, William. Computer Organization & Architecture. Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall.
Additional Reference texts
Bartee, Thomas C. Computer Architecture and Logic Design. McGraw-Hill
Hayes, John P. Computer Architecture and Organization. Third Edition, McGraw-Hill
Patterson & Hennessy. Computer Organization and Design. Third Edition, Elsevier.
Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Structured Computer Organization. Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall.
Irv Englander. The Architecture of Computer Hardware and Systems Software: An Information
Technology Approach, Wiley, 3rd Edition, ISBN 0-471-07325-3
Principles of Computer Hardware Alan Clements

CSC 214 Digital Electronics

Core texts
Digital Logic and Computer Design - M. Morris Mano
Additional Reference texts

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 Digital Systems - from gates to microprocessors. Sanjay K. Bose
Design of Logic systems. Douglas Lewin, publisher: Van Nostrand
Introduction to Digital Circuits. Theodore F. Bogart, publisher: MacMillan/McGraw-Hill
Electronic Logic Circuits. J. R. Gibson, publisher: Arnold
Introduction to Logic, Irving M. Copi, Carl Cohen
Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals Mano Morris
Modern Digital Electronics by R.P. Jain
Digital design by Morris Mano

CSC 215 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Core texts
Artificial intelligence: A modern approach. Prentice-Hall. By Russel Stuart J., Peter Norvig.
Artificial Intelligence. Structures and strategies for complex problem solving. By Luger George F.
Additional Reference texts
Artificial Intelligence by Winston
Automated Planning: Theory and Practice by Ghallab, Nau, Traverso
Intelligent scheduling by Zweben
An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms by Mitchell
Automated Theorem Proving by Newborn, Newborn
Computer Vision: A Modern Approach by Forsyth, Ponce
Prolog Programming for AI by Bratko
An Introduction to AI Robotics by Murphy
Machine Learning by Mitchell
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Sutton, Barto
An Introduction to Support Vector Machines by Cristianini, Shawe-Taylor

CSC 216 Assembly Language Programming

Core texts
Assembly Language: Step by step: Programming with DOS and Linux(With CD-ROM) Jeff
Duntemann John Wiley and sons
The Intel Microprocessors 8086/8088, 80186/80188, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium and Pentium
Pro Processor Architecture, Programming, and Inter-facing Barry B. Brey Prentice Hall
Additional Reference texts

CSC217 Web Programming and Applications

CSC 221 Object-Oriented Analysis Design and Programming

Core texts
Timothy A. Budd; Introduction to Object Oriented Programming, Second Edition
Additional Reference texts
C++ How to program by Deitel

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 Java How to program by Deitel
Object Technology David Taylor
Object oriented programing with C++ E. Belagurusamy

CSC 222 Automata Theory

Core texts
John E. Hopcroft et al; Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation, 3rd edition,
Addison Wesley,ISBN:0201441241
Introduction to Languages & Theory of Computation John Martin

Additional Reference texts

R. Gregory Taylor; 1998, Models of Computation and Formal Languages; Oxford University Press.
ISBN019510983-X
Cellular Automata and Complexity by Stephen Wolfram, ISBN-10: 0201626640, ISBN-13: 978-
0201626643
Computer and Intractability, A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness by M. R. Garey and D. S
Johnson, Freeman 1986
Elements of the Theory of Computation by H. Lewis and C. Papadimitriou, Prentice Hall 1998
Introduction to computer Theory, by Daniel I. A. Cohen

CSC 223 Operating Systems

Core texts
Modern Operating System, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 2nd Edition (2004)
Additional Reference texts
Operating System Concepts Seventh Edition by Avi Silberschatz
Operating systems: Internals and design Principles by W. Stallings

CSC 224 Software Engineering

Core texts
Pressman, Software Engineering A practitioners approach, McGraw Hill
Additional Reference texts
Sommerville, Software Engineering, Addison Wesley
Software Engineering Fundamentals Ali Behforooz & Frederick Hudson

CSC 225 Computer Networkings

Core texts
Computer networks, Andrew S. Tanenbaum Fourth Edition, Pearson Education
Additional Reference texts
Data and computer Communications, William stallings, , Pearson Education
Data communications, Computer networks and Open systems, Fred Halsall, Addison Wesley
Computer Networking and the Internet F. Halsall

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 Computer Networks and Internets with Internet applications by Douglas Comer
Networking and data Communications Laboratory manual

CSC 226 Computer Systems And Networking Laboratory

Core texts
Additional Reference texts

CSC227 Programming Project

Year 3

CSC 311 Analysis and Design of Algorithms

Core texts

CSC 312 Artificial Intelligence Programming

Core texts
Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence Bratko, I: Addison Wesley, 1990
Programming in prolog Clocksin, W.F. and Mellish, C.S. Springer-Verlag
Programming in Prolog: Using the ISO Standard by William F. Clocksin and Christopher S. Mellish
Additional Reference texts

CSC 313 Foundation of Human Computer Interaction

Core texts
Contextual Design: Customer-Centred Approach to Systems Design, Beyer H. & Holtzblatt K.,
Morgan Kaufman, 1998
Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory D. Aboud, Russell Beale (2003), Human Computer Interaction, 3rd
Edition, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0130461091
Additional Reference texts
Designing Interactive Systems: People, Activities, Contexts, Technologies, Benyon D., Turner P.,
& Turner S., Addison-Wesley, 2005
Human Computer Interaction, by Jenny Preece et al.
Rapid Contextual Design: A How-To Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centred Design, Karen
Holtzblatt, Jessamyn Burns Wendell, & Shelley Wood, Morgan Kaufmann, 2005
Human-Computer Interaction in the new Millennium John M. Carroll

CSC 314 Computer Graphics

Core texts
Computer Graphics by Donald Hearn
Mel Slater, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Anthony Steed, Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments
From Realism to Real-Time, Addison-Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0201-62420-6

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Additional Reference texts
Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics by William N. Newman ??
Introduction to Computer Graphics by N. KrishnaMurthy
Digital Image Processing by R.C. Gonzalez

CSC 315 Distributed Systems

Core texts
Distributed Systems principles and paradigms by A.S Tanenbaum & Steen
Distributed Operating Systems concepts & Design by Pradeep K. Sinha
Additional Reference texts
Distributed Systems For System Architects by Paulo Verssimo and Lus Rodrigues
W. Emmerich, Engineering Distributed Objects. Wiley 2000, ISBN 471-98657-7
Distributed and Parallel Computing By Hesham El-Rewini and Ted G. Lewis 1997
Distributed Systems, A.S. Tanenabum
Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations, and Advanced Topics (Wiley Series on
Parallel and Distributed Computing) by Hagit Attiya and Jennifer Welch 2004)

CSC 316 Introduction to Organizations & Management

Core texts
Additional Reference texts

CSC 321 ICT Project Management

CSC 322 Network and Distributed Programming

Core texts
UNIX Network Programming Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API by W.R. Stevens
UNIX Network Programming Volume 2: Interprocess communication by W.R. Stevens
Additional Reference texts

CSC 323 Machine Learning

CSC 324 User-Centred Development and Evaluation

CSC 325 Management Information Systems

Core texts
Management Information Systems G.B. Davis & M.H. Olson; Mc Graw Hill
Management Information Systems: Conceptual Foundations, Structure, and Development.
McGraw Hill. Gordon B. Davis, Margrethe H. Olson
Additional Reference texts
Management Information Systems T. Lucey ; Letts Educational
Principles of Information Systems for Management; N. Ahituv & S. Neumann(AJR)

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 Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (8th Edition). Prentice Hall, 2004.
K.C. Laudon. and J.P. Laudon. ISBN. 0131206818
Management Information Systems for the Information Age (4th Edition). Stephen Haag, Maeve
Cummings, Donald J. McCubbery, ISBN 0-07-058512-1
Essentials of Management Information Systems K.C Laudon
Management Information Systems, by Effy Oz.

CSC 326 Compiler Construction

Core texts
Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Alfred V. Aho
Compiler Design by Santanu chattopadhyay
Additional Reference texts

Year 4

CSC 411 Computer Network Security

Core texts

Additional Reference texts

Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice W. Stallings
Handbook of Applied Cryptography (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) by Alfred
Menezes, Paul van Oorschot, and Scott Vanstone
Introduction to Modern Cryptography (Chapman & Hall/Crc Cryptography and Network Security
Series) by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell
Security in Computing C. Pfleeger and Shari L. Pfleeger Prentice Hall International
Network security, private communication in a public world

CSC 412 Knowledge-based Systems

Core texts

Additional Reference texts

Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems, John Self,
Artificial Neural Networks, B. Yegnanarayana
Artificial Intelligence: A new synthesis, Nils J Nilson
Introduction to Knowledge Management

CSC 413 Principles of Business Management and Entrepreneurship

Core texts

CSC 414 ICT and Society

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Core texts

CSC 416 Computer Systems Project

Electives

Old Syllabus
ICS 411 Computer Systems Project

ICS 413 Network Systems Security

Core texts
Additional Reference texts
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice W. Stallings
Handbook of Applied Cryptography (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) by Alfred
Menezes, Paul van Oorschot, and Scott Vanstone
Introduction to Modern Cryptography (Chapman & Hall/Crc Cryptography and Network Security
Series) by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell
Security in Computing C. Pfleeger and Shari L. Pfleeger Prentice Hall International
Network security, private communication in a public world

ICS 415 Compiler Construction

Core texts
Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Alfred V. Aho
Compiler Design by Santanu chattopadhyay
Additional Reference texts

ICS 417 Information Systems and Society

ICS434 Distributed Multimedia Systems

Core texts
Communication and Computing for Distributed Multimedia Systems by Guojun Lu
Additional Reference texts
Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services by Scholten, Hans;
Sinderen, Marten J. van
Video Codec Design: Developing Image and Video Compression Systems by Iain Richardson
Multimedia communication systems: Techniques standards and Network

ICS 435: Distributed Databases

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ICS 441 Knowledge Engineering and Society
Core texts
Dutton,W.H., 2001a (ed). Information and Communication Technologies. Visions and Realities.
Oxford University Press. Oxford.
Ethics of Information Management - Richard O. Mason, Florence M. Mason, Mary J. Culnan.
Sage series in Business Ethics
Castells. M., 2002. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume1: The Rise of the
Network Society. Second Edition. Blackwell Publishers, Massachusetts, USA.
Additional Reference texts
Webster, Frank, 1995. Theories of the Information Society. Routledge
Dutton, W. H., 2001b. Society on the Line. Information Politics in the Digital Age. Oxford University
Press, New York.

ICS 462 Information Systems Strategy and Implementation

Core texts
Additional Reference texts
Strategic Management & Information System Wendy Robson
Strategic Management Pearce & Robinson

ICS 463: Information Systems Audit

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