Bilal's Online Courses (BOC)

The course discusses the basics of Arduino microcontroller (controlling LEDs, DC motors, serial communication), android mobile development under MIT app inventor, the creation of professional well formatted documents under Microsoft word/Google docs, the manipulation, analysis and charting of large amount of data under Microsoft Excel/google Sheets and the creation of professional well animated presentation under Microsoft PowerPoint/Google Slides. The course also reviews ethical cases in computer science and Engineering under NSPE, ACM, ASME and IEEE.

This course covers the following topics: An introduction to the system development process which links user requirements to the computer based system. This course will provide students with a basic exposure to the tasks and challenges facing today’s projects .This course emphasizes problem formulating and problem solving. Students learn how to analyze a problem domain and develop the appropriate analysis and design models to formalize the requirements using object oriented methods and appropriate theory.

This course is an introduction to intensive, parallel and distributed computing. It presents to the students the set of software and hardware techniques that allows the simultaneous execution of independent sequences of instructions on multi- or many- processors and/or cores. It also covers the development and the evaluation of parallel programs using various well-known parallel programming models and libraries such as OpenMP, MPI and CUDA.

This course covers the following topics: An introduction to the system development process which links user requirements to the computer based system. This course will provide students with a basic exposure to the tasks and challenges facing today’s projects .This course emphasizes problem formulating and problem solving. Students learn how to analyze a problem domain and develop the appropriate analysis and design models to formalize the requirements using object oriented methods and appropriate theory.

Ce cours donne une introduction aux outils bureautiques MS Office Word, Excel et Access.

Avec Word, les étudiants seront amenés à créer des documents complets, avec une bonne organisation, une page de couverture, une table de matières, une numérotation de pages, des libellés numérotés de figures et de tables, des entêtes et des pieds de pages, des références et des index tous automatisés et personnalisés.

Sous Excel, les étudiants seront capables de créer des tables de données, de les mettre en forme, d'y calculer des informations utiles et de les visualiser avec des graphiques (i.e. charts). Les formules apprises varient de celles basiques comme la somme et la moyenne, à celle intermédiaires comme les SUMIF, COUNTIF et AVERAGEIF, pour enfin utiliser les conditions simples et imbriquées avec les formules IF.

Enfin, les étudiants saurant créer des bases de données relationnelles sous Access afin d'y saisir des données, de les requêter, de leur créer des formulaires de saisie et d'en tirer des rapports imprimables.

This course is an introduction to software engineering (SE). By the time the students validate this course, they will be able to discuss the importance of SE, to define, identify and give examples on the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, as well as the various known ways and possible sequences of planning and executing these phases, i.e. the various software development models. Students will be equally able to perform thorough requirements engineering and analysis, and clear specifications along with UML Use Case diagrams and Detailed Textual Descriptions of use cases. Subsequently, they are able to design convenient software solutions that, once implemented, they would meet the original requirements. In this course, the students learn how to test, verify and validate software artifacts, with hands-on using the JUnit testing framework, and they learn how to collaborate on code repositories using the most famous distributed VCS, Git, with a its most-used cloud back end, GitHub.

This course is offered to master students in Management Information Systems. It builds on top of the previous "Mobile Information Systems" course where the students are initiated to basic mobile development for the Android platform, namely hands-on the Android Studio, Android projects creation, running and debugging, basic GUI (with adaptation to various locals, screen sizes and resolutions), basic business logic and storing user settings using shared preferences. 

This course covers more advanced topics such as creating list view with a data adapter, data request from remote web services, the use of asynchronous tasks for multi-threading with GUI update, view recycler, more on fragments, shared preferences, SQLite, content providers and loaders.

Ce cours donne une introduction aux outils bureautiques MS Office Word, Excel et Access.

Avec Word, les étudiants seront amenés à créer des documents complets, avec une bonne organisation, une page de couverture, une table de matières, une numérotation de pages, des libellés numérotés de figures et de tables, des entêtes et des pieds de pages, des références et des index tous automatisés et personnalisés.

Sous Excel, les étudiants seront capables de créer des tables de données, de les mettre en forme, d'y calculer des informations utiles et de les visualiser avec des graphiques (i.e. charts). Les formules apprises varient de celles basiques comme la somme et la moyenne, à celle intermédiaires comme les SUMIF, COUNTIF et AVERAGEIF, pour enfin utiliser les conditions simples et imbriquées avec les formules IF.

Enfin, les étudiants saurant créer des bases de données relationnelles sous Access afin d'y saisir des données, de les requêter, de leur créer des formulaires de saisie et d'en tirer des rapports imprimables.

This course covers the following topics: An introduction to the system development process which links user requirements to the computer based system. This course will provide students with a basic exposure to the tasks and challenges facing today’s projects .This course emphasizes problem formulating and problem solving. Students learn how to analyze a problem domain and develop the appropriate analysis and design models to formalize the requirements using object oriented methods and appropriate theory.

This course aims at helping CSC and CCE graduate students in successfully establishing their master thesis. In fact, the students will be able to pick up a convenient master thesis topic and collaborate with a supervisor, to explore, read and analyze the underlying literature, to write a complete and clear master thesis proposal, then to successfully defend it in front of a jury. It also aims at helping the students in acquiring a broader sense of research and its underlying mechanisms as a long-term Ph.D. activity and then as a life career.

This course is an introduction to the world of mobile information systems and mobile applications development with a focus on business applications such as mobile commerce, marketing, banking and on ubiquitous computing such as context awareness, ambient intelligence and mobile learning. Hence, the outcome is two folds: learning how to develop quality mobile applications and learning how to propose the right design, technology and platform for a specific business application domain.

This course covers the following topics: An introduction to the system development process which links user requirements to the computer based system. This course will provide students with a basic exposure to the tasks and challenges facing today’s projects .This course emphasizes problem formulating and problem solving. Students learn how to analyze a problem domain and develop the appropriate analysis and design models to formalize the requirements using object oriented methods and appropriate theory.

This course aims at helping CSC and CCE graduate students in successfully establishing their master thesis. In fact, the students will be able to pick up a convenient master thesis topic and collaborate with a supervisor, to explore, read and analyze the underlying literature, to write a complete and clear master thesis proposal, then to successfully defend it in front of a jury. It also aims at helping the students in acquiring a broader sense of research and its underlying mechanisms as a long-term Ph.D. activity and then as a life career.

This course covers creation of web-based applications using one or more programming languages and related concepts. This course is designed to teach fundamental techniques required in developing both client-side and server-side web-based applications. This course covers web design and static web generation using HTML 5 and CSS, client-side programming with JavaScript, and dynamic web development using PHP and MySQL. This course will familiarize the learner with different tools and guidelines that might support the development process. Concepts covered by this course include but not limited to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML. Ajax, web servers, database engines, PHP, ASP and Web Services.

This course provides theoretical and practical knowledge required to perform administration of computer systems and networks. It covers the fundamentals of system administration under Linux, with emphasis on principles that apply to all environments.