Masterstudium Business Informatics - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

SIT/EUP End User Programming
ECTS-Credits: 6.0
Summary: This module deals with issues of End User Programming (EUP) / End User
Development (EUD) - i.e. how persons without professional programming background
and/or without professional programming goals develop software (e.g., by developing
large and complex spreadsheet programs). There exist rather diverse and large groups
of such developers. The focus of this module is on professionals of other disciplines that
develop software in their own business context. Students who have successfully passed
this module have a profound understanding of important aspects of end user programming
and are able to asses and improve software frameworks for end user programming
perspective.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge:
Skills:
• Broad and integrated understandings of various approaches to end user programming
• Critical understanding of principles, concepts and important methods for facilitating
end user programming
• Knowledge and understanding of the current state of literature in this area
• Application of the own knowledge when evaluating and improving software in terms
of end user development support
Competences:
• Better understanding of non-developers, especially professionals of other disciplines
in their competencies, interests, and plans
• Higher awareness of implicit assumptions of one's own profession
Syllabus: Introduction to EUP, aims and approaches towards EUP, state-of-the-art and
historical overview of EUP., and which persons program as end users and what are
their aims. What is the dierence to "normal"programming; professionals as end users;
opportunities & risks of EUP, review of examples EUP (e.g., spreadsheets and databases
as EUP, Business Intelligence (BI)), infrastructures, management of versions, and quality
of EU-Programs. End User Testing.
Expected Prerequisites: Basic programming skills
Teaching and Learning Methods and Adequate Assessment of Performance: The module
is organized along reading materials before lectures, lectures, practical exercises including
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