960021 VU Basics of IT and Data Science (2022W)

Required Reading:
Read the following parts of the book The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery , Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, Kristin Tolle, Jim Gray, Microsoft Research, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9825442-0-4,
Available online:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/fourth-paradigm-data-intensive-scientific-discovery/
Introduction (Foreword, Jim Gray on eScience: A transformed scientific method)
Choose one of the essays on data science you are most interested in
Read Chapter 1 of Christopher Bishops‘ book Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Available online:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/pattern-recognition-machine-learning/
Motivation
https://towardsdatascience.com/excel-vs-sql-a-conceptual-comparison-dcfbee640c83
DB-Basics
Darwen, H. (2009). An introduction to relational database theory
Page 1-24
https://library.ku.ac.ke/wp-content/downloads/2011/08/Bookboon/IT,Programming%20and%20Web/an-introduction-to-relational-database-theory.pdf
ER-Modells
Song, I., Frohlich, K. (1995). A Practical Guide to Entity-Relationship Modeling
https://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/song/courses/info%20605/appendix/AppendixA.PDF
SQL
W3Schools (incl. try it yourself sections!)
https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_intro.asp
https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_syntax.asp
https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_select.asp
Lab Preparation (Important prepare this BEFORE the class starts!!)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mMLOWbYiAJqHtAr5L0bTFRUZJVU6guWmSnJfNlU6dzU/edit?usp=sharing
Basics in a nutshell
Busbee, K., Braunschweig, D. (2013). Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++
Page 7 (System Dev. Life Cycle) - 33
Page 37 - 41
Page 54 - 55
Page 63 - 91
https://openlibrary-repo.ecampusontario.ca/jspui/bitstream/123456789/692/3/Programming-Fundamentals-1570222270.pdf
Software Development Process
Van Castern, W. (2017). The Waterfall Model and the Agile Methodologies : A comparison by project characteristics - short
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313768860_The_Waterfall_Model_and_the_Agile_Methodologies_A_comparison_by_project_characteristics_-_short
Rendek, L. (2020, May 28).Bash Scripting Tutorial for Beginners. Linuxconfig.Org.Retrieved August 18, 2022, fromhttps://linuxconfig.org/bash-scripting-tutorial-for-beginners(Sections Bash Shell Scripting Definition to Hello World Bash Script )
Chacon, S., & Straub, B. (2014). Pro git: Everything you need to know about Git (2nd ed.). Apress.https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2(Chapter 1)
Further Reading:

Further essays in the same book
The Fourth Paradigm 10 Years On , Tony Hey, Anne E. Trefethen, Inform. Spektrum 42(6): 441-447, 2020
Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms from Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-David; Chapters 1 & 2
Available online:https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning/copy.html
F. Korth, S. Sudarshan, A. Silberschatz (2019), Database System Concepts, ISBN: 9780078022159
A. Meier, M. Kaufmann (2019), SQL & NoSQL Databases, ISBN: 9783658245498
T. Garbin (2021), Learn Coding Programming, ISBN: 9798537235354
J. Wasserberg (2020), Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners: Learn essential computer science concepts and coding techniques to kick-start your programming career , ISBN: 9781839212536
H. Bhasin (2019), Python Basics A Self-Teaching Introduction, ISBN: 978-1-683923-53-4
J. P. Mueller (2018), Beginning Programming with Python for Dummies, ISBN 978-1-119-45789-3
Newham, & Rosenblatt, B. (1998). Learning the bash Shell (2. ed., revised & updated, updated to include bash version 2.0.). O'Reilly.
Wolf, J. (2022). Shell-Programmierung. Rheinwerk Computing.https://openbook.rheinwerk-verlag.de/shell_programmierung/
Loeliger, J., &Ponuthorai, P. K., Version Control with Git. O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, 2012.
https://learngitbranching.js.org/(This is an interactive tutorial for training the branching operations in git)