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COMP2911: Design in Computing
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2013 s1 |
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Overview
After completing COMP2911 you should:
- Understand the engineering design process
- Have an appreciation of the role of design in computing
- Work effectively in teams to design and implement solutions to large problems
- Select and/or design the appropriate algorithms/data structures/class hierarchies when developing software to solve non-trivial new and unfamiliar problems
Specific Skills
- Understand the fundamentals of Object Oriented (OO) programming.
- Design OO solutions for larger problems using abstraction and interfaces.
- Be able to appropriately reuse code using inheritance.
- Understand the issues involved in designing classes in an OO system.
- Distinguish between well-designed OO programs and poorly designed OO programs.
- Be aware of and make appropriate use of the most common design patterns in your class designs.
- Understand the most common algorithm design methodologies, and their strengths and weaknesses
- Appreciate when to select existing algorithms and when to design new ones.
- Be able to design reasonable algorithms to solve a range of problems.
- Be able to successfully develop large projects in teams using agile methods.
- Engage in effective pair programming.
- Follow a style guide and engage in effective code review.
- Understand and effectively use: program by contract, test driven development, and refactoring.
- Work effectively in a team.
- Use an IDE.
- Program in Java.
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