Students undertake a suitable software development project that extends their programming skills, introduces them to collaborative software development, while enabling them to integrate relevant skills from their database and software project management courses.

This course will take place in the first 5 weeks of semester 2. Each team will have 4 supervision meetings during this time.

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The course will be assessed 100% by a report and software which will be marked by the supervisor and an independent reader.

The assessment includes a workload report where students agree on the contributions of their fellow team members. This will help staff identify individual contributions and to ensure that marks are fairly assigned.

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

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To integrate the skills acquired in the first semester courses: Programming, Database Theory and Applications.

To have experience of working in a group.

To gain experience in writing a small technical report.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate that they can design, implement and test a moderately sized piece of software.

2. Produce a literate report describing the project.

3. Produce the appropriate documentation for the delivered software.