COMP2911: Design in Computing

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.
• Use an IDE.
• Program in Java.

About the Course

• Course Outline

• Assumed Knowledge

• Topic list

• Java Style Guide

• C Style Guide

Student Resources

• lectures on YouTube

• Standard Teaching Schedule

• Final Exams: specimen exam 2007s1 final exam

Staff Resources

• Notes on syllabus

  Postmortems and suggestions

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