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(University status attained in April 2004)
Website: http://www.bolton.ac.uk
Year: 1988 – 1990
Course: BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies
Awarded: DISTINCTION (overall first over the 2 years)
Operating SystemLanguages / Other
PASCAL, DBASE3, MS-DOS, SQL, COBOL74, ORACLE, FMS
The HND course I attended at BIHE was a 2-year, full-time course made up of the following modules:
My final year project consisted of an ORACLE SQL-forms designed GUI interface running under an MS-DOS operating system. The GUI interface provided insert, update, delete and transaction rollback facilities for recording information about students attending courses at BIHE, along with their module assignment and exam result details.
The student data was held in an ORACLE SQL database set-up on a PC local to the application. The tables were designed in accordance with Third Normal form (TNF) design methodology in order to cancel out repeating student data. The resulting application catered for both snapshot and historical reports. System analysis work was carried out using SSADM (Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology).
My IT career between the years 1990 and 2014, involved significant programming and large projects for Tandem HP NonStop servers.
HP NonStop refers to the line of fault-tolerant servers and software originally developed by Tandem Computers and now owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). These systems are designed for continuous operation and uninterrupted transaction processing by using redundant hardware components and independent processors to automatically failover in the event of a failure, ensuring high availability for critical applications in banking, telecommunications, and healthcare.
Origins and Evolution
Key Features and Uses
a) 6 benefits
b) 7 roles
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d) 6 types of documentation
1985 to 1988 : Leigh College (now Wigan and Leigh College)
Marshall Street, Leigh, Lancashire, UK. WN7 4HX
2 ‘A’ Levels – Computer Science and Biology
(building below demolished 2007 and now rebuilt at the Leigh Sports Village – 1, 2, 3, 4 article by Julie McKiernan courtesy of PastForward, produced by Wigan Archives & Museums, Issue No. 97, August – November 2024, Marking 50 years of the borough, Wigan and Leigh’s local history magazine – Address: Past Forward, Archives, Wigan & Leigh, Leigh Town Hall, Mark Street, Leigh, WN7 1DY)
My ‘A’ Level Computing Project was developed on a Amstrad PC 1512 and was written in Turbo Pascal. The software provided a means for a local town newspaper to store, track and calculate the money payable to delivery staff based on paper round metrics. These metrics related to size of round, papers delivered and any leaflets attached to a delivery for that week.
My ‘O’ Level Computing Project was developed on a LINK 480Z Research Machine and was written in Extended BASIC. Three submissions were required with appropriate design and testing. The excerpts here show details of a BASIC program for storing and displaying student exam results.
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