Undergraduate Course: Computer Science Large Practical (INFR09040)

Course Outline
School	School of Informatics	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	*PLEASE NOTE: This course has been replaced by a 20 credit version - INFR09044 Computer Science Large Practical, please see the entry for that course.* The Computer Science Large Practical exposes students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.
Course description	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

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations	Students MUST NOT also be taking Software Engineering Large Practical (INFR09039) OR AI Large Practical (INFR09018) Students MUST NOT also be taking Informatics Research Proposal (INFR11071)	Other requirements	This course is open to all undergraduate Informatics students including those on joint degrees. For external students where this course is not listed in your DPT, please seek special permission from the course organiser (lecturer). Students are assumed to have competence in designing, programming, debugging, and documenting code in a structured programming language. This course is not available to VUG students.

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

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.