Undergraduate Course: CS/SE Individual Practical (INFR09030)
Course Outline
School |
School of Informatics |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 09 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
Home subject area |
Informatics |
Other subject area |
None |
Course website |
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ip |
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Course description |
The Individual Programming project exposes students to the problems that arise with the design and implementation of large scale computer systems, and to methods of coping with such problems. Students will gain experience in how to:
* Design clearly and coherently structured systems
* Choose the appropriate means of implementation
* Discover and use relevant information
* Schedule their work load
* Present their work in a clear and concise way.
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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 |
Successful completion of Year 2 of an Informatics Single or Combined Degree, or equivalent by permission of the School. Students are assumed to have competence in design, programming, debugging, documentation and programming in Java.
This course is not available to VUG students.
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Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
No Classes have been defined for this Course |
First Class |
Week 1, Friday, 12:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. Room G.01, William Robertson Building |
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Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: 0 |
Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 12:10 - 13:00 |
First Class |
First class information not currently available |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1 - Describe the software design and development process, and be able to relate this process to their own experience.
2 - Plan to manage complex systems with competing requirements.
3 - Consider and compare possible structures for a design.
4 - Read technical papers and extract relevant content.
5 - Plan to manage their time and resources in completing a large project.
6 - Write and debug a program consisting of one to two thousand lines of code.
7 - Write clear and concise documentation.
8 - Analyse the performance of a system. |
Assessment Information
Written Examination 0
Assessed Assignments 100
Oral Presentations 0
Assessment
One large programming project, assessed in two parts. The first part consists of exercises to help students gain familiarity with a provided code base, relevant libraries and underlying algorithms. In the second part, an application of the code base is presented to the students. Students must refine the application specification, propose and implement a design, and test their implementation. Students submit both their code and a report that presents and analyses their specification, design, implementation and tests.
If delivered in semester 1, this course will have an option for semester 1 only visiting undergraduate students, providing assessment prior to the end of the calendar year. |
Special Arrangements
Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser |
Dr Marcelo Cintra
Tel: (0131 6)50 5118
Email: mc@inf.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Tamise Totterdell
Tel: 0131 650 9970
Email: t.totterdell@ed.ac.uk |
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1 September 2010 6:10 am
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