[Feature] Course Content Management

[NuwanJ]

This will act as the backend module for the course webpage and API.

The parameters should be able to be modified through a GUI by the role of "course manager".

This is an example of a supposed API response (free to update new fields):

{
    "code": "CO224",
    "name": "Computer Architecture",
    "credits": 3,
    "type": "CORE",
    "prerequisites": [
        "CO221",
        "CO222"
    ],
    "content": "Overview, Fundamentals of computer architecture, Computer arithmetic, CPU organization, Pipelining, Memory hierarchies, Interfacing and communication, Performance issues, Multiprocessors.",
    "objectives": "To teach the elements of a computer and how they are organized and explain how instructions of a program will be executed by the microprocessor and how performance can be evaluated and enhanced so as to widen the vision of students in understanding programs behaviour on a computer system.",
    "ILOs": {
        "Knowledge": [
            "Represent and manipulate numbers in different formats.",
            "Describe the elements of a computer such as microprocessor, cache, memory and system buses.",
            "Explain the memory hierarchy and how it operates.",
            "Describe multiprocessor systems, SIMD, GPU and Vector and elaborate their importance.",
            "Design and analyse single-, multi-cycle and pipelined processors.",
            "Analyse issues related to system performance."
        ],
        "Skill": [
            "Design architectural solutions and describe designs using an HDL.",
            "Use simulator to test a designed processor."
        ],
        "Attitude": [
            "Gain appreciation of computer systems and how they are built and tested using tools."
        ]
    },
    "allocation": "Lectures : 29h, Tutorial-Classes : 4h, Practical-Classes : 14h, Assignments : 10h",
    "modules": [
        {
            "topic": "Overview",
            "description": "Difference between Computer Architecture and Computer Organization; Role of computer architecture in Computer Engineering",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "1",
                "T": "-",
                "P": "-",
                "A": "-"
            }
        },
        {
            "topic": "Fundamentals of computer architecture",
            "description": "Von Neumann machine organization, Instruction types and addressing modes, Subroutine call and return mechanisms, Instruction decoding and execution; Registers and register files; I/O techniques and interrupts",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "2",
                "T": "-",
                "P": "-",
                "A": "-"
            }
        },
        {
            "topic": "Computer arithmetic",
            "description": "Integer arithmetic; Multiplication, Division, Significance of range,precision and accuracy; Floating-point arithmetic; Standard methods of representation, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division;Conversion between integer and floating-point numbers",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "3",
                "T": "1",
                "P": "-",
                "A": "-"
            }
        },
        {
            "topic": "CPU organization",
            "description": "Implementation of the von Neumann machine; Control and data paths,single vs. Multiple bus datapaths; Instruction set architecture,Implementing instructions; Register transfer notation, Conditional and unconditional transfers, ALU control; Control unit; hardwired vs. Microprogrammed realizations; Arithmetic units for multiplication and division",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "5",
                "T": "1",
                "P": "4",
                "A": "4"
            }
        },
        {
            "topic": "Pipelining",
            "description": "Introduction to instruction level parallelism, Overview of pipelining, Pipelined data paths and control, Pipeline hazards; structural, data and control hazards, forwarding, stalls; Reducing the effect of hazards",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "4",
                "T": "-",
                "P": "2",
                "A": "-"
            }
        },
        {
            "topic": "Memory hierarchies",
            "description": "Memory systems hierarchy, Electronic, magnetic and optical technologies; Main memory organization, latency, cycle-time, bandwidth and interleaving; Cache memories; Address mapping, line size, replacement and write-back policies; Virtual memory, page faults, TLBs, protection",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "5",
                "T": "1",
                "P": "4",
                "A": "3"
            }
        },
        {
            "topic": "Interfacing and communication",
            "description": "I/O fundamentals; Types and characteristics of I/O devices, handshaking, buffering; Buses; types of buses, synchronous and asynchronous buses, bus masters and slaves, bus arbitration, bus standards; programmed I/O, interrupt driven I/O, Interrupt structures; vectored and prioritized, interrupt overhead; Direct memory access",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "4",
                "T": "-",
                "P": "4",
                "A": "3"
            }
        },
        {
            "topic": "Performance issues",
            "description": "Metrics for computer performance, clock rate, MIPS, Cycles per instruction, benchmarks, limitations of performance metrics",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "2",
                "T": "1",
                "P": "-",
                "A": "-"
            }
        },
        {
            "topic": "Multiprocessors",
            "description": "Introduction to shared memory multiprocessors, clusters, message passing systems, Flynns classification",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "3",
                "T": "-",
                "P": "-",
                "A": "-"
            }
        },
        {
            "topic": "Total (hours)",
            "description": "",
            "allocation": {
                "L": "29",
                "T": "4",
                "P": "14",
                "A": "10"
            }
        }
    ],
    "references": [
        "David Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design; The Hardware/Software Interface, 4th Edition"
    ],
    "marks": [
        {
            "description": "Practicals",
            "allocation": "20"
        },
        {
            "description": "Assignments",
            "allocation": "20"
        },
        {
            "description": "Mid-Exam",
            "allocation": "20"
        },
        {
            "description": "End-Exam",
            "allocation": "40"
        }
    ],
    "urls": {
        "edit": "/structured_data/undergraduate_courses/semester4/CO224.json",
        "view": "/courses/undergraduate/semester4/CO224/",
        "markdown": "/pages/courses/undergraduate/semester4/CO224",
        "faq_page": "https://faq.ce.pdn.ac.lk/academics/sem4/co224/"
    },
    "last_edit": "03/02/2024 21:51:16"
}

Courses API

APIs - To be finalized

[GET] /api/courses/ug/v1/semesters
[GET] /api/courses/ug/v1/semester/{semester}/
[GET] /api/courses/ug/v1/course/{courese_code}/