Undergraduate Course: Computer Science Large Practical (INFR09040)
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 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Informatics |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The Computer Science Large Practical 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. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | Students MUST NOT also be taking
Software Engineering Large Practical (INFR09039) OR
AI Large Practical (INFR09018)
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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. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
A student who has successfully completed this course should be able to:
- Describe the design and development process, and be able to relate this process to their own experience.
- Plan to manage complex systems with competing requirements.
- Consider and compare possible structures for a design.
- Read technical papers and extract relevant content.
- Plan to manage their time and resources in completing a large project.
- Implement and debug a computer system of medium to large size
- Write clear and concise documentation.
- Analyse the performance of a system. |
Assessment Information
Assessed Assignments: 100%
One large design and implementation project, assessed in two
parts. The first part consists of exercises to help students gain
familiarity with a provided base system, relevant libraries and
underlying algorithms. In the second part, an application of the base
system is presented to the students. Students must refine the
application specification, propose and implement a design, and test
their implementation. Students submit both their implementation and a
report that presents and analyses their specification, design,
implementation and tests.
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Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
This project gives students experience in developing a non-trivial
computer system and providing some analysis of its behaviour. In
particular the student gains practical experience of:
* Design: ensuring the requirement is well scoped and defined and
constructing a design at a level of detail that allows some
prediction of the behaviour of the system without committing to
implementation detail.
* Implementation: implementing and testing a working prototype of the
design.
* Analysis: providing some analysis of the characteristics of the
design.
Relevant QAA Computing Curriculum Sections: Computer Based Systems,
Software Engineering, Systems Analysis and Design, Professionalism |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Lectures 8
Tutorials 0
Timetabled Laboratories 0
Coursework Assessed for Credit 70
Other Coursework / Private Study 22
Total 100 |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Vijayanand Nagarajan
Tel: (0131 6)51 3440
Email: |
Course secretary | Mrs Victoria Swann
Tel: (0131 6)51 7607
Email: |
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