Undergraduate Course: Informatics 2C - Introduction to Software Engineering (INFR08019)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Informatics |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 08 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Informatics |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course gives an overview of the engineering of software systems. It introduces the main activities and concerns of industrial and commercial software engineering, and enables students to go beyond programming towards software engineering in their own work.
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Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
none |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | 15:00 - 15:50 | | | | | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 15:00 - 15:50 | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 15:00 - 15:50, Zone: Central. Lecutre Theatre 5, Appleton Tower |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
- Explain how to apply commonly agreed ethical principles to a software engineering situation.
- Motivate and describe the activities in the software engineering process.
- Construct use cases for an application scenario.
- Explain and construct UML class diagrams and sequence diagrams.
- Explain how a software system and its construction may be assessed using testing and other relevant techniques
- Evaluate aspects of human usability of an application program or web site.
- Compare different approaches to software licensing.
- Use a modern IDE to build a large Java system, making appropriate use of configuration management, testing and other appropriate tools.
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Assessment Information
Written Examination - 75%
Assessed Assignments - 25%
Oral Presentations - 0%
There will be at least one assessed exercise involving working with software engineering tools.
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| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Jacques Fleuriot
Tel: (0131 6)50 9342
Email: Jacques.Fleuriot@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms Kendal Reid
Tel: (0131 6)50 5194
Email: kr@inf.ed.ac.uk |
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