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Part 1: Introduction to Computing


	LEC #				TOPICS


	1				Course Overview


	2				Algorithms and Object Oriented Programming


	3				Java^® Constructs


	4				Built-in Operators, Built-in Java^® Classes, and Classes, Objects & Methods


	5				Recursion and Iteration, Imperative & Declarative Programming, Abstract Data Types (ADTs), Arrays, and Classes, Object & Methods (continued)


	6				Designing Methods, Wrapper Classes, Arrays, Packages, Inheritance, Derived Classes, and Dynamic Binding


	7				Information Hiding, Exceptions


	8				Vectors, Streams, Input and Output


	9				Searching and Sorting


	10				Time Complexity of Algorithms


	11				Review Session

Part 2: Data and Knowledge Representation


	LEC #				TOPICS


	12				Logic and Medical Ontology


	13				Boolean Algebra and Predicate Knowledge


	14				Ontology and Data Model


	15				Medical Vocabulary Representation and Survey of Medical Coding Systems


	16				Medical Coding Systems (continued) and UMLS


	17				Major KR Schemes


	18				Process

Part 3: Data Management, Querying and Retrieval


	LEC #				TOPICS


	19				Nature of Data


	20				Data Models


	21				Maintaining Integrity of Data


	22				Implementing a Relational Database


	23				Overview of Object-oriented Data Management


	24				Modeling for Analytical Processing of Data


	25				No Lecture, Final Project Due

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