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Course Overview
The CS3015 course tackles both the technical and the organisational aspects of large software systems analysis, design, and development, as well as other issues relating to software development, including software quality assurance and testing.
The practical component will allow you to apply the knowledge gained during lectures, as a member of a software project team.
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Course Organisation
First term (September to December 2011) timetable:
2 lectures + 1 workshop (or practical) per week, starting
w/c Monday 26 September 2011
1 group guidance meeting and 1 group meeting per
fortnight, starting w/c Monday 3 October 2011.
Note: The University calendar starts in July each
year; therefore week numbers are such that w/c 26/9/2011 is week 12
in the official Calendar. Hence, the first term (September to
December) has lectures from week 12 (first term week) to week 23
(last term week). See University
term dates and week numbers for further info. To avoid confusion, we
will use the term 'Uweek' to denote weeks as per the University
calendar whenever needed.
| Lecture | (Uweeks 12 to 23) | Tuesdays | 10.00-11.00 | Fraser Noble 2 |
| Lecture | (Uweeks 12 to 23) | Wednesdays | 11.00-12.00 | St. Mary's G3 |
| Lecture | (Uweeks 12 to 23) | Thursdays | 10.00-11.00 | Taylor A37 |
| Project mgmt practical | (Uweek 12) | Friday | 15.00-17.30 | Meston 2 |
| Software dev. practical | (Uweeks 14 to 22) | Fridays | 15.00-17.30 | Meston 5 |
| Guidance meetings | (one per fortnight) | arranged w. guide | ||
| Group meetings | (one per fortnight) | arranged by team |
Room locations:
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Meston 2 mean Meston Building, lecture theatre 2
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Fraser Noble 2 means Fraser Noble Building, lecture
theatre 2
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St. Mary's G3 means St. Mary's Building, lecture
theatre G3
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Taylor A37 means Taylor Building, room A37
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Meston 5 is a Windows-based DIT computer lab
located at the rear ground floor of the Meston
Building
(Meston Walk entry)
- All the above buildings are located in the Old Aberdeen Campus; to see their exact position, please refer to the Old Aberdeen Campus map.
Points to remember
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This is a 24 week module worth 30 credits. Consequently, the
course runs both in Term 1 AND Term 2, although with
different timetables. Due to its nature, its organisation and
its assessment structure differ from those of most other level 3
courses.
- Teaching is all contained in the first term;
practical work spans both terms.
- First groupwork deliverable (worth 25% of the total
aggregate mark) to be submitted by the end of the first
term (Friday 16 December 2011). First individual report
from each student to be jointly submitted.
- Individual written exam (worth 25% of the total
aggregate mark) to be sat in the January 2012 exam
diet. There is no written exam in the June diet. Students
who fail the January exam will have to resit it in
August.
- Second groupwork deliverable (worth 50% of the total
aggregate mark) to be submitted by Friday 11 May 2012.
Second individual report from each student to be jointly
submitted.
- Project demonstration (assessed as part of the second
groupwork deliverable) to be staged in w/c Monday 7 May
2012 (last term week).
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Individual aggregate marks for CS3015 will be announced
following the June exam board after all the various components
(first assignment, written exam, second assignment) have been
collected and marked.
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Periodically, you will be sent announcements about this course
to your university e-mail address. Please check your e-mail
regularly. We will not use any email address that is not the
university one to email students or to reply to them.
Please make sure that the string CS3015: appears at the beginning of the subject slot in any email you send to the course organiser concerning this subject.