Computational Literacies (Autumn 2018)

Abstract

The goal of the course is to make student acquire literacy of computer science approaches to software development, so as to be able to act as informed IT-project managers or members of software development teams.

Description

The development of IT systems is a complex development life-cycle, and engages various interconnected phases and actors (e.g., IT managers, software developers, designers, business analysts, users, project managers etc.). The successful implementation of each phase within the development cycle and the right engagement of actors lead to overall IT development success.

The overall aim of this course is to enable students to understand and participate in IT development cycles and to introduce students to basic computer literacy topics.

Students will learn about user interface design, agile software development methods, systems development life cycles, software engineering, information systems development, Data Flow Diagrams, Entity/Relationship Diagrams, Relational Databases, SQL, and electronic document representation formats.

Formal prerequisites

Basal introduktion til programmering.

Intended learning outcomes

After the course, the student should be able to:

Ordinary exam

Exam type:
C: Written report, external (7-trinsskala)
Exam description:
The specific requirements for the submission will be provided in the exam sheet published in learnIT.