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| INFO0074-1 | Computer Science for economists and managers
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| Duration : | 40h Th, 15h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Alain Dubois |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| All year long |
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Course contents :
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| In their daily and professional life, managers are overwhelmed by data and information. They will gain a competitive advantage if they can collect, transmit efficiently and manipulate those data to transform them into useful information. ITC (information and communication technologies) can help us reach that goal. The younger generations, born within a digital environment, know that very well and even better after the course «Mastering IT tools» where they learned to use powerful tools but after which, they could be under the illusion that all management problem can be solved with spreadsheets.
Learning to know the possibilities and constraints of those technologies, their potentialities for organisational change and dehumanisation risks, is a major challenge. This study implies the mastery of elementary concepts in management information that we will try to make tangible by abusing of various software and devoting considerable time to Web 2.0 «do-it-yourself».
Content
- Management Information System notion (MIS)
- Web Interfaces
- Basic programming concepts
- Data bases and DBMS
- Activity modeling (applied to spreadsheets and programming)
- Data modeling (Entity-association model)
- Panorama of popular applications of computing to management
- Outline of information technologies
- Development project of a software application
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| After this course, students will be able to
- use tools similar to those indispensable in their career
- learn to discover emerging information technologies and evaluate their organisational potential
- appraise the computing and software infrastructure of a small organisation
- learn a script language and use it to automate repetitive tasks
- rationally organise a set of informations to be digitally recorded in a spreadsheet or database
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Usage of a computer and standard software (operating system, mailing software, browser, office suite). These prerequisites are taught in mandatory course INFO2043-1 « Mastering IT tools » |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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- Theoretical courses : short lectures about concepts, techniques and set tools. Traditional course in class room; individual work
- Exercises : simple management situation or problem to be solved with the set tools. Monitored work in computer labs
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Various documents, exercises, software on Lol@ |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| January :
- Theory : individual written examination (MCQ) [30 %]
- Exercises : tests on PC to evaluate programming skills [50 %]
- Other activities : evaluation based on a random sample in a portfolio of solutions of exercises [20 %]
September :
- Theory : individual written examination (MCQ) [40 %]
- Exercises : tests on PC to evaluate programming skills [60 %]
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Contacts :
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| Lol@ |
| Visit the website of the course on the e-learning platform Lol@ |
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