COMP1110 Introduction to Software Systems

First Year Course

Offered By	Research School of Computer Science
Academic Career	Undergraduate
Course Subject	Computer Science
Offered in	Second Semester, 2011 and Second Semester, 2012
Unit Value	6 units
Course Description	This course introduces students to the tools and techniques for developing software systems of a size and quality of an industrially relevant nature. The course teaches the fundamental strategies of abstraction, decomposition and reuse as methods for constructing such systems. Verification and validation techniques, with an emphasis on testing, are taught as a means to ensure that students are able to deliver software products of the quality required. In particular, the course will cover: recursive data structures and algorithms; structured data types, abstract data types and their applications; object-oriented programming; and software life-cycle. The course will also introduce some of the theoretical fundamentals that underpins software engineering, including: reasoning about software and its application to specifications, and verification and validation
Learning Outcomes	Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: Given a specification of the required behavior of a simple program the student should be able to: design, implement, and test a solution. Analyze alternatives among simple data-structures -- lists, tables, and trees, for example -- and select the most appropriate structure for a simple task. Analyze alternatives among simple algorithms -- sorting and searching, for example -- and select the most appropriate for a simple task. Rigorously analyze the correctness of a simple program fragment given a logical description of its required behavior. Apply their knowledge of regular expressions to devise a regular expressions to match target phrases. Apply their knowledge of testing principles to select appropriate test data for an individual software routine. Identify economic implications of the software life cycle to the process of software construction.
Indicative Assessment	Assignment (30%); Lab Tests (20%); Final Exam (50%)
Workload	Thirty one-hour lectures and nine two-hour tutorial/laboratory sessions
Areas of Interest	Information Technology
Requisite Statement	COMP1100 or COMP1730
Incompatibility	COMP1510 and COMP2750
Prescribed Texts	Horstmann, Cay Big Java , Wiley, 4th Edition, 2010 - recommended reading
Science Group	A

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