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CS551Q: ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:05


Course Overview

This is a look at data science with respect to business intelligence, dashboards whereby students learn to create applications for handling larger datasets, as well as as a knowledge of visualisations for different situations. This also covers networking and fault tolerance issues as part of learning to development for continuous integration and continuous deployment of the applications.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Arabella Sinclair
  • Dr Mingjun Zhong

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme
  • MSc Information Technology

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

We will explore a range of different datasets that characterise a range of different common challenges to learn different ways in which we might visualise them. We will also learn how to host these applications in the cloud. The topics covered include:

  • Data manipulation
  • Data visualisation
  • Network issues for applications
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous deployment

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
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MCQ Quiz

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandThe ability to refactor and test applications to ensure the appropriate standard of quality.
ProceduralApplyAn ability to use agile requirements gathering to develop an application meeting client needs.
ProceduralCreateAn ability to apply appropriate continuous integration and continuous deployment techniques to application development.
ProceduralEvaluateAn ability to apply lightweight data science approaches to develop a dashboard application.
ProceduralEvaluateAn ability to design dimensional data models to support a software application.

Computer Programming Exercise

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
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(Group Exercise)

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralApplyAn ability to use agile requirements gathering to develop an application meeting client needs.
ProceduralEvaluateAn ability to apply lightweight data science approaches to develop a dashboard application.
ProceduralEvaluateAn ability to design dimensional data models to support a software application.

Computer Programming Exercise

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
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(Individual Exercise)

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandThe ability to refactor and test applications to ensure the appropriate standard of quality.
ProceduralApplyAn ability to use agile requirements gathering to develop an application meeting client needs.
ProceduralCreateAn ability to apply appropriate continuous integration and continuous deployment techniques to application development.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Resubmission/resit of failed elements (pass marks carried forward)

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Individual tasks will be assigned in place of group work

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralApplyAn ability to use agile requirements gathering to develop an application meeting client needs.
ConceptualUnderstandThe ability to refactor and test applications to ensure the appropriate standard of quality.
ProceduralEvaluateAn ability to design dimensional data models to support a software application.
ProceduralCreateAn ability to apply appropriate continuous integration and continuous deployment techniques to application development.
ProceduralEvaluateAn ability to apply lightweight data science approaches to develop a dashboard application.

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