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 Academic Year:
| 2015/6 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Computer Science |
| Credits:
| 12 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Academic Year |
| Assessment Summary:
| CW50EX50 |
| Assessment Detail: |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
Mandatory extra work (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: | While taking this module you must take CM10227 |
| Description:
| Aims: 1. To provide a foundation for understanding of Computer Science in the context of contemporary scientific and engineering practice and its role in wider society. 2. To introduce the concepts of method and process as they are used in computing as a science and engineering discipline. 3. To foster principled thinking about rigour and validity in Computer Science 4. To develop the ability of new Computer Science students to define and articulate a problem through analysis and integration of a variety of relevant and authoritative information sources. 5. To introduce concepts of software quality and measurement as challenges in the context of 'fitness for purpose' and the role of a specification. 6. To develop students' appreciation for the importance of validity for the formulation and testing of claims, so that students may develop arguments about the integrity of new technologies and allied advancements in Computer Science. 7. To exemplify rigour and validity in Computer Science by exposing new Computer Science students to contemporary research work. 8. To found and exercise students' abilities in group project definition, monitoring and evaluation. 9. To apply technical knowledge in a manner that tolerates ambiguity and respects the need to negotiate with stakeholders. 10. To equip new computer science students with abilities to construct arguments about the professional, social and ethical issues involved in the development and exploitation of Computer Science knowledge. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the unit the students will be able to: 1. Analyse relevant information to define a Computer Science problem and to construct a software requirements specification that encapsulates it. 2. Systematically test software based on a software requirements specification. 3. Explain how the scientific method relates to empirical testing of software 4. Prepare and present clear, succinct, critical and comparative accounts of group project work in a manner that is appropriate for a defined audience. 5. Identify and discuss potential ethical issues in the work of Computer Science research and professional practice. Skills: Information analysis, report writing, presentation skills, group working, critical reflection, identification of opportunities for personal development. Content: Software complexity, abstraction and modularity. The lifecycle concept and agility in software engineering Scientific method and hypothesis testing (disconfirmability) and the problem of indeterminacy in sociotechnical systems. Review processes in assuring scientific and engineering knowledge (peer review and quality cycles). Software quality and testing. Specification of software requirements. Project management and collaborative work (scheduling, task allocation, monitoring, risk analysis and mitigation). Exemplars of contemporary research work in Human-Computer Interaction, Media Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Mathematical Foundations. Scientific ethics (e.g. plagiarism, falsification, misreporting). Professional codes of conduct. |
| Programme availability: |
CM10251 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Computer Science
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