ICS 314, Fall 2023 | 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

Competent in a hackathon setting

You are comfortable signing up for and attending a hackathon.
You are able to join teams and help develop an interesting and innovative project idea.
You can employ your software engineering skills and technology stack to rapidly develop prototype solutions.

Referencing modules: HACC

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

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

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, Configuration management, QA Part 1: Coding standards

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 cloud hosting environment.

Referencing modules: Deployment

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

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

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

Design and implement effective test suites

You understand the concepts of unit, integration, and acceptance testing
You can design a set of acceptance tests to ensure that all pages display and all forms work for correct inputs in your application.
You can set up continuous integration for your project using GitHub Actions.

Referencing modules: Testing

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: Final Project, UI Design (Basics)

Design using React

You understand basic principles of React: JSX, properties, components.
You can build simple prototypes using the React version of Bootstrap 5.

Referencing modules: UI Design (React)

Design using a UI framework

You can use the Bootstrap 5 framework to design usable, responsive, and attractive web pages.

Referencing modules: UI Design (Frameworks)

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: Bootstrap 5, React Router, meteor-application-template-react.

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

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

Write useful project documentation

Learn to write user and developer-level documentation.