Academy

Open course notes in engineering, computer science, software, artificial intelligence, electronics, mathematics, cybersecurity and related fields.

Academy is my personal, openly accessible learning archive and brings together course notes I have prepared over the years in a single learning index while preserving their existing publication dates, canonical addresses and technical context. Each course note continues to be published at its own permanent address.

Current technical analyses and engineering articles remain under Blog, while concise conceptual references are maintained separately in Wiki.

Secure Software Engineering: Applied Cybersecurity from Threat Modeling to Penetration Testing

An applied secure software engineering study that connects threat modeling, authentication and authorization, web/API security, Active Directory, networks, memory safety, software supply chain, security testing, detection, incident response, and digital forensics.

December 2020

Artificial Intelligence: Philosophy, Theory and Practice

A course note tracing artificial intelligence from its philosophical roots to modern models and agents, connecting computability, search, probability, machine learning, neural networks, Transformers, RAG, AI safety, multimodal models, and production architectures.

September 2016

Clean Code and Maintainability Engineering

Engineering notes on code quality beyond naming and formatting, covering maintenance cost, modular decomposition, error contracts, testability, static analysis, concurrency, and change risk.

August 2015

Automata Theory and Formal Languages

Formal languages notes following the progression from regular expressions and finite automata to context-free grammars, pushdown automata, Turing machines and computability.

March 2015

Signals and Systems

A compact course note on continuous- and discrete-time signals, LTI systems, convolution, Fourier, Laplace and z transforms, sampling, filters, DFT/FFT, modulation, and feedback.

February 2015

PL/SQL Programming Fundamentals

PL/SQL notes covering block structure, variables, control flow, collections, records, cursors, exceptions, procedures, functions and packages.

February 2015

Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications

Comprehensive lecture notes on genetic algorithms covering optimization, representation, selection, crossover, mutation, constraints, convergence, differential evolution, and multi-objective optimization.

February 2015

Computer Architecture: Instruction Sets, Pipelining and Memory Systems

Comprehensive computer architecture notes spanning performance and power, RISC-V, datapaths, arithmetic, pipelines, out-of-order execution, vector/GPU computing, I/O, caches, virtual memory, NUMA, coherence, CXL/UCIe, and measurement.

January 2015

Software Engineering: Process, Requirements, Design and Quality

Comprehensive software engineering notes on life-cycle processes, project management, measurement, risk, quality, testing, maintenance, requirements, design, object-oriented analysis and architecture.

December 2014

Numerical Analysis: Computational Methods

Numerical-analysis notes covering error analysis, matrix methods, linear and nonlinear equation solving, root finding and interpolation methods.

November 2014

Database Management Systems

Database course notes covering ER modeling, the relational model, normalization, SQL querying, transaction management, database objects, indexing and access control.

November 2014

Object-Oriented Programming with C++

Detailed C++ notes on classes, object lifetime, references, resource management, overloading, inheritance, polymorphism, streams and the standard library.

October 2014