Learning Outcomes

This page presents course-level and module-level outcomes. Outcomes identify what students will know and be able to do if they master the material.

Course-level outcomes

Students mastering the material in this course will achieve the following student outcomes:

SO#2: An ability to define the computing requirements of a problem and to design appropriate solutions based on established design principles and with an understanding of the tradeoffs involved in design choices.
SO#3: An ability to use sound development principles to implement computer-based and software systems of varying complexity, and to evaluate such systems.
SO#4: An ability to collaborate effectively in teams to accomplish a common goal.
SO#5: An understanding of professional, ethical, legal, social and security-related issues and of the responsibilities of computer scientists.
SO#6: An ability to analyze the global impact of computing on local individuals, organizations, and society.
SO#8: An ability to use current techniques, skills, and tools necessary for computing practice.

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

Assessed by: A01: Assessment of your professional persona

Create high quality technical essays

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

Referencing modules: Application Design (Meteor), Part 2, UI Design (Frameworks), Final Project, QA Part 1: Coding standards, Configuration management, Javascript 1: Basics, Open Source Software, Professional Persona

Assessed by: A15: Assess your ability to write about your Meteor experience, A12: Assess your ability to write about your UI framework experiences, A09: Assess your ability to write effectively about coding standards, A06: Assess your ability to write effectively about configuration management concepts, A03: Assess your ability to write effectively about Javascript, A01: Assessment of your professional persona

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: A07: Assessment of simple functional programming skills using Underscore, A05: Assessment of simple Javascript skills (classes), A03: Assess your ability to write effectively about Javascript, A02: Assessment of simple Javascript skills

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:

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: A06: Assess your ability to write effectively about configuration management concepts

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 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: A08: Assess your ability to manage coding standards,

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: A08: Assess your ability to manage coding standards, A09: Assess your ability to write effectively about coding standards

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: A10: Assess your ability to use simple HTML and CSS

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: A11: Assess your ability to use HTML, CSS, and Semantic UI, A12: Assess your ability to write about your UI framework experiences

Design using Meteor Framework

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

Referencing modules: Application Design (Meteor), Part 2, Application Design (Meteor), Part 3, Application Design (Meteor), Part 4, Final Project, Application Design (Meteor), Part 1

Assessed by: A13: Assess your ability to use the Meteor Framework.

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, Project Management

Assessed by: A17: Assess your team presentation

Write useful project documentation

Learn to write user and developer-level documentation.

Referencing modules: Final Project, Project Management

Assessed by: A17: Assess your team presentation