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:

Understand how to succeed in ICS 314

Referencing modules: Introduction

Create a high quality professional persona

Referencing modules: Professional Persona

Create high 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

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Competent with elementary Javascript

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

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Use and develop open source software appropriately

Referencing modules: Open Source Software

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Use configuration management tools and techniques effectively

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

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Understand the software deployment process

Referencing modules: Deployment

Use an IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) effectively

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

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Efficiently create software that conforms to standards

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

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Design and implement effective test suites

Referencing modules: Testing

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Design and implement web pages using HTML and CSS

Referencing modules: UI Design (Basics), Final Project

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Design using a UI framework

Referencing modules: UI Design (Frameworks)

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Design using React

Referencing modules: UI Design (React)

Design using Meteor Framework

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

Design using MongoDB

Referencing modules: Databases (MongoDB)

Understand the use of design patterns in software engineering

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, Project Management

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Write useful project documentation

Learn to write user and developer-level documentation.

Referencing modules: Final Project, Project Management

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