e-Portfolio as an MSc Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Essex

This e-portfolio contains the outcomes from my learning journey throughout my MSc in Computer Science at the University of Essex (UK).

Please view my e-portfolio.

Module 1: Launching into Computer Science

Units of Module 1

• Unit 1: Computing as a Profession – Responsibilities and Challenges
• Unit 2: Introduction to Computer Architecture and the Functionality
• Unit 3: Emerging Trends in Computer Science
• Unit 4: Computing Infrastructure and Network
• Unit 5: Software as a Tool - Its Functionality and Development Methodologies
• Unit 6: System Software – Operating Systems
• Unit 7: Data Abstraction
• Unit 8: An Introduction to Algorithms and Basic Programming Concepts
• Unit 9: Solving Problems Using Python
  • Example of project on a contact book application developed in Python.
• Unit 10: Data Representation using Database Concepts
• Unit 11: Advanced SQL
  • SQL queries created to answer specific questions set in an assignment.
• Unit 12: Research Topics in Computer Science – Data Science, AI and Standards

Module 2: Object-oriented Information Systems

Units of Module 2

• Unit 1: Introduction to Information Systems
  • Own post as a part of a collaborative discussion on information system failures, with focus on an AI-based system for guiding investment decisions
• Unit 2: Information Systems and their Importance
  • Own responses to peers during a collaborative discussion on information system failures
• Unit 3: Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design
  • Summary post as a part of a collaborative discussion on information system failures
  • Supermarket-related UML class diagram
  • Lab coding challenges in Python
  • Coding exercises on Python functions, classes, and methods
• Unit 4: Object-Oriented Development and Python
  • Coding exercises on encapsulation, polymorphism, private (class) attributes and methods
• Unit 5: Understanding UML
  • Updated supermarket-related UML class diagram
• Unit 6: Hands-on with UML
  • UML class, sequence, and activity diagrams for a doctor's surgery
• Unit 7: Database Design
  • Assignment on a software system design to help in managing self-service checkouts at a supermarket, including classes, their relationships, and a related UML class diagram
  • UML 3NF-compliant ERD on property lettings
• Unit 8: Hands-on with Database Design
  • UML 3NF-compliant ERD on a Graph DB-like card fraud detection-related use case
  • Own post as a part of a collaborative discussion on alternatives to SQL, with focus on Graph DBs.
• Unit 9: Implementing Database with SQL
  • Own responses to peers during a collaborative discussion on alternatives to SQL.
• Unit 10: Working with SQL
  • Summary post as a part of a collaborative discussion on alternatives to SQL
  • Introduction to SQL-related queries/exercises
  • Advanced SQL-related queries/exercises
  • Advanced OOP-related Python codes developed during exercises and coding challenges
• Unit 11: Web Development in Python
  • Assignment on a Python-based system implementation to help in managing a doctor's surgery's appointment scheduling's and prescriptions' system
  • Introduction to Flask-related exercises
• Unit 12: The Future of Information Systems
  • Blog post on emerging trends in information systems

Module 3: Secure Software Development (Computer Science)

Module 4: Network and Information Security Management

Module 5: Software Engineering Project Management

Module 6: Research Methods and Professional Practice

MSc Computing Project and Dissertation

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