Course description: Coverage of the architecture and programming of transaction processing, client/server systems, and distributed objects. Programming will involve traditional on-line transaction processing with systems similar to CICS as well as newer client/server systems such as Visual BASIC. Comparison of on-line transaction processing verses dimensional data warehousing.

This course was a continuation of COSC3308 personal computing. It covered more advanced areas of Visual Basic 6 programming. The textbook for the course was Advanced Visual Basic 6: 2nd Edition by Irvine and Liang. I used material from this class in my masters degree to complete a semester-long systems development project in ISM6121 advanced information system analysis and design. Microsoft Visual Basic .NET was becoming more popular during this course, so I took advantage of the Microsoft Academic Alliance contract UT Tyler had with Microsoft to do some of my homework assignments in .NET instead of version 6 of VB.