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54304 Software Engineering
No. of hours per week: four hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures, seminars,
and laboratory workshops.
Assessment: assignments, laboratory exercises,
and a final exam
Subject aims
To study project management theory and related software
engineering principles, including tools, techniques, and
software development strategies in managing medium to
large scale software development projects.
Subject description
Current topics include project planning and estimation;
software documentation standards; failure of conventional
projects; project monitoring and control, productivity
improvement techniques, structured and prototyping project
life cycles, project feasibility study, software requirements
analysis, components of design activity, steps of
implementation, software acceptance test generation, quality
control, project risk management, Computer Aided Software
Engineering (CASE), Integrated Project Support Environments
(IPSE), software maintenance, safety critical systems.
~ ~ 3 0 5 Database
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: lectures and laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignments and final examination
Subject aims
To supply the practical skills and knowledge to design most
databases used in industry; to provide the foundation to
evaluate existing database management systems; to teach
proficiency in SQL.
Subject description
The theory and process of database design, including -
database architecture; database architecture; data modelling;
relational theory; logical and physical design; relational,
network, hierarchical and object oriented databases; SQL.
Textbooks
To be advised
~9306 Human-Computer Interaction
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: lectures and seminars
Assessment: two assignments and one exam
Subject aims
The aim is to introduce students to the process of user
interface design.
Subject description
Technology: usability of inputloutput devices and interaction
styles.
Methodologies: Formal, coqnitive and usability approaches to
deve~o~in~~~~ro~riate
human-computer interaction.
Theories: theoretical foundations of HCI.
Advanced C
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures and
laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignments and a final examination
Subject aims
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To introduce common data structures and algorithms in C;
to extend the skill of programming in C.
Subject description
Abstract data types; recursion; dynamic memory allocation;
standard abstract data types (stacks, queue, tables, linked
lists, trees etc.); searching and sorting; algorithm efficiency. An
introduction to C + + may be included.
sQ314 Software Engineering - Systems
Analysis
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures and tutorial
sessions
Assessment: assignment and/or projects and a
final examination
Subject aims
Software engineering is the study of organisational and
technical issues associated with the development of largescale
software systems. This subject surveys a variety of
process models, management and development methods and
techniques common to software engineering.
~ ~ 4 0 2 Operating Systems
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: 50300 Data Structures and
Algorithms
Instruction: lectures and laboratory and tutorial
sessions
Assessment: a mid-semester test, an exam and
lab-based exercises
Subject description
To introduce the student to the fundamental concepts of an
operating system and how a modern operating system is
structured using these concepts. Students will look at the data
structures and algorithms of real operating systems and the
effect these have on the programs and environments of the
operating system. Issues such as processes and multi-tasking,
memory management, file systems, inputloutput, deadlocks,
distributed systems and distributed file systems will be
covered. UNlX will be used to provide an in-depth case study
of a real operating system.
~ ~ 4 0 3 Computer Science Team Project
No. of hours per week: four hours
Instruction: software development project in a
team environment
Assessment: project deliverables
Subject aims
To enable students to develop technical and managerial skills
by practising aspects of the software enqineerinq - discipline
covered in the previous semester.
Subject description
The exercise of software engineering and project
management tools, techniques, and methodologies by
working on several medium scale projects.