Course overview
This course will provide the fundamentals skills to students to convert a well-defined set of requirements into a well-designed solution for the customer. Students will cover design principles, methodologies, modelling, and tools to allow them to create well founded and rigorous software. Students will have a strong foundation of design which they will be able to apply to their programming skills.
- Software Design Fundamentals
- Design Decisions and Documentation
- Software Design in Context
Course learning outcomes
- Explain key software design principles and methodologies used in the development of well-structured software solutions
- Develop a high-level system design based on a given set of requirements
- Construct a detailed component structure using techniques of composition, decomposition and abstraction
- Validate the system design by systematically comparing it against the original requirements
Availability
Class details
Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 27893
Section WS02
Size 40
Available 19
Class number 27894
Section WS03
Size 40
Available 21
Class number 27895
Section WS04
Size 40
Available 40
Class number 27896
Section WS05
Size 40
Available 40
Class number 27898
Section WS07
Size 40
Available 33
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 27899
Section WS01
Size 40
Available 33
Class number 27900
Section WS02
Size 40
Available 33
Class number 27901
Section WS03
Size 40
Available 40
Class number 27903
Section WS05
Size 40
Available 32
Class number 27904
Section WS06
Size 40
Available 25
Class number 27905
Section WS07
Size 40
Available 17
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