Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. identify, formulate, and solve software engineering problems, including the specification, design, implementation, and testing of software systems that meet specification, performance, maintenance and quality requirements; 2. elicit, analyse and specify software requirements through a productive working relationship with various stakeholders of a software development project; 3. function effectively as a team member; 4. understand professional, ethical and social responsibility of a software engineer; 5. participate in design, development, deployment and maintenance of a medium scale software development project; 6. convey technical material through oral presentation to, and interaction with, an audience; 7. convey technical material through written reports which satisfy accepted standards for writing style; 8. use Unified Modeling Language in software specification documents; and 9. evaluate the impact of potential solutions to software engineering problems in a global society, using the knowledge of contemporary issues and merging software engineering trends, models, tools, and techniques.

Introduction to software engineering fundamentals; object-oriented programming; number representations; data structure and algorithms, Abstraction, modules and objects; designing for efficiency; object-oriented software design and implementation.