Learning Outcomes

Understand how to succeed in ICS 314

• You understand the goals, structures, and procedures for learning in ICS 314.
• Your computer and its software is adequate to support the experiences you will have in this course.

Referencing modules: Introduction

Create a high quality professional persona

• You can join and participate in two professional networks (LinkedIn, TechHui).
• You can design and implement a high quality website providing a portfolio of your professional accomplishments and interests.

Referencing modules: Professional Persona

Create high quality technical essays

• You demonstrate the ability to write professional-quality technical essays.

Referencing modules: UI Design (Frameworks), Final Project, QA Part 1: Coding standards, Configuration management, Design Patterns, Javascript 1: Basics, Open Source Software, Professional Persona

Assessed by:

Use and develop open source software appropriately

• You can choose a suitable open source license for your projects.
• You can create software projects that satisfy the three prime directives and thus can support an open source community.
• You can interact with the open source community via appropriate questions and forums.

Referencing modules: Open Source Software

Assessed by:

Perform usability evaluation

• You understand the basic concepts, goals, and methods for usability evaluation.
• You can design and carry out a simple usability test on a mockup.

Referencing modules: Usability Evaluation, Part 1

Competent with elementary Javascript

• You can use basic Javascript constructs: variables, functions, conditionals, loops, arrays, objects.
• You can implement object orientation using the ES6 class construct.
• You can use the Underscore library to program in a functional manner.

Referencing modules: Javascript 3: Functional programming, Application Design (Meteor), Part 2, Application Design (Meteor), Part 3, Javascript 2: Object orientation, Final Project, QA Part 1: Coding standards, Application Design (Meteor), Part 1, Javascript 1: Basics

Assessed by:

Use configuration management tools and techniques effectively

• You understand the motivation for version control and configuration management
• You can use git commands to support version control.
• You can set up a GitHub account and use it to manage files.
• You can implement project enhancements by creating and merging branches.

Referencing modules: Final Project, QA Part 1: Coding standards, Configuration management

Assessed by:

Behave ethically as a software engineer

• You understand the need for both personal and professional ethics.
• You can analyze the ethical implications of software engineering practices that can incur harm.
• You understand how ethical practice involves not just avoiding harm, but doing good.
• You can apply five ethically constructive habits of mind and action.
• You are aware of the two ACM Codes related to ethics and can apply them to your practice.
• You can apply ethical principles to controversies such as online harrassment and privacy.

Referencing modules: Ethics in Software Engineering

Understand how to perform agile project management using GitHub and Issue-Driven Project Management

You understand how to apply Issue-Driven Project Management using the GitHub hosting service to implement a simple agile software process.

Referencing modules: Agile Project Management

Understand the software deployment process

• You understand the general issues involved in software deployment.
• You can deploy a Meteor application to the Galaxy hosting environment.

Referencing modules: Deployment

Use an IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) effectively

• You can use IntelliJ IDEA easily and effectively for source code construction and modification.
• You can configure IntelliJ IDEA to load within 10 seconds.
• You have learned keybindings necessary to use IntelliJ IDEA efficiently for Javascript programming.

Referencing modules: Final Project, QA Part 1: Coding standards, Development Environments

Assessed by:

Efficiently create software that conforms to standards

• You understand the benefits of coding standards and why they improve the quality and efficiency of software development.
• You can recognize the presence (or absence) of standards and make software conform if necessary.
• You can take advantage of tool support to automate compliance with certain standards.

Referencing modules: Final Project, QA Part 1: Coding standards

Assessed by:

Design and implement effective test suites

• You understand the strengths and weaknesses of white box testing, black box testing, and coverage.
• You can design a set of tests that support an acceptable level of quality for your software applications.
• You can use the Jasmine framework to write simple unit tests for Javascript applications.

Referencing modules: Testing

Assessed by:

Design and implement web pages using HTML and CSS

• You can use HTML and CSS to design basic web pages.
• You can use tools (IntelliJ, Chrome Developer Tools, LiveReload) to design and implement pages quickly.

Referencing modules: UI Design (Basics), Final Project

Assessed by:

Design using React

• You understand basic principles of React: JSX, properties, components.
• You can build simple prototypes using the React version of Semantic UI.

Referencing modules: UI Design (React)

Design using a UI framework

• You can use the Semantic UI framework to design usable, responsive, and attractive web pages.

Referencing modules: UI Design (Frameworks)

Assessed by:

Design using Meteor Framework

• You understand basic principles of Meteor: collections, publications, reactive variables.
• You can develop basic CRUD applications quickly and effectively.
• You can implement authentication and authorization.
• You can use extensions and templates: Semantic UI, React Router, meteor-application-template-react.

Referencing modules: Application Design (Meteor), Part 2, Application Design (Meteor), Part 3, Final Project, Application Design (Meteor), Part 1

Design using MongoDB

• You understand basic principles of databases: normal forms, SQL vs. noSQL vs. OO, etc.
• You can develop basic databases in Mongo efficiently and effectively.

Referencing modules: Databases (MongoDB)

Understand the use of design patterns in software engineering

• You understand what a design pattern is and why they are useful in software engineering.
• You understand the definitions of the following design patterns: Singleton, MVC, Observer, Factory, Publish-Subscribe, Prototype, Front Controller
• You can recognize various design patterns in software systems and apply them to your systems when desirable.

Referencing modules: Design Patterns

Practice simple project planning techniques

Learn to collaborate more efficiently in a team by breaking a project into sequence of milestones, and each milestone into issues which are assigned to group members and tracked in GitHub.

Referencing modules: Final Project, Agile Project Management

Assessed by:

Write useful project documentation

Learn to write user and developer-level documentation.

Referencing modules: Final Project, Agile Project Management

Assessed by: