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 314 during the pandemic

You understand best practices for working and learning from home.
You know how to assess your current learning environment and can take steps to improve it if necessary.

Referencing modules: Learning in a pandemic

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: IDPM Project Management

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: Unit Testing

Perform software review

You understand basic principles of software review, including walkthroughs, technical reviews, and inspections.
You can perform Issue Driven Project Management Reviews in a manner that results in improved code quality and incrementally improved checklists.

Referencing modules: IDPM Review

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: IDPM Project Management

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Write useful project documentation

Learn to write user and developer-level documentation.

Referencing modules: IDPM Project Management

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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