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Katharinengasse 16/4/2 Completed, Current, and Future Courses with "The Open
University" The Open University is a proven centre of academic excellence, independently rated in the top 15% of all UK universities. Source The Daily Telegraph
(based on HEFC quality assessments)
Completed Course: T171 You, Your Computer and the Net (Completed in Sept. 2000) http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01T171_computing
The course's aims are to: Give one an introduction to computers
and the internet. Skills one can expect to acquire from the course are: How to operate a personal computer
and common types of software. This is a Level 1 course, which makes intellectual demands appropriate to the first year of undergraduate study.
Current Course: M206-Computing: An Object-Oriented Approach (begins in Feb. 2004) http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01M206_computing
The course's aims are to: Teach one how to reason about computing systems, how to understand and design solutions to computing problems, how to exploit network computing, and how to work in groups using electronic conferencing. It teaches programming skills for constructing software. It also teaches analytical skills to enable one to look at a problem and determine what software components would be required to produce a new computer-based solution. It explores some of the choices that have to be made in software development, including those influenced by ethical and social issues. Skills one can expect to acquire from the course are: The course takes an object-oriented view of software development, which means that all software is considered as a collection of objects that interact by sending messages to each other and reacting to the answers to the messages. These ideas are at the forefront of modern software development. The language Smalltalk has been chosen for programming. Smalltalk is a pure object-oriented language that reinforces fundamental object-oriented principles. Most of the teaching material is a combination of print, computer-based text and practical work. Course materials will illustrate the application of software development techniques to a variety of large-scale case studies, and highlight general issues such as computer security and human-computer interaction. Interactive multimedia is used to present concepts of object and network computing. Practical programming experience in the widely used C++ language, using non-object and object-oriented approaches. Also included, elementary work with Windows & trade programming as well. This is a Level 2 course, which makes intellectual demands appropriate to the second and third years of an ordinary computingegree.
(begins in Feb. 2005)
Summary
Description
The course deals with concepts and skills useful in a wide range of computer applications. Although the main emphasis is on problems that can be solved with a personal computer, many of the ideas are equally applicable to larger systems and also to the small systems in domestic appliances. The course is organized in four blocks. The early blocks develop ideas and techniques that are as widely applicable as possible and make little special use of the Windows environment. Later on, ideas applicable to the Windows environment are introduced. At this point the work becomes visually rather more interesting, but of slightly more restricted application. This is a Level 2 course, which
makes intellectual demands appropriate to the second and third years
of an ordinary computingegree.
Final course for Diploma
in Computer Sciences: (begins in Feb. 2006) http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01M301_computing
The course's aims are to: Investigate how large items of software are produced, from analysis through design to implementation. It builds on M206 Computing: an object-oriented approach, examining state-of-the-art topics such as Java programming and the Unified Modelling Language (UML) for the analysis and design of applications, frameworks and patterns, and looks at the principles underlying concurrent systems. The course is based on three set books and includes a significant amount of practical work. Skills one can expect to acquire from the course are: The course teaches several state-of-the-art topics about large, distributed software systems and how they are developed. The topics include Java programming, analysis and design of application software using UML (Unified Modelling Language), frameworks and patterns, and concurrency. The topics concentrate on solving the problems that arise in the development of large distributed systems, and are illustrated by a case study. Operating systems are examples of large software systems; they are investigated in some detail and used to develop an understanding of the ideas behind concurrency. There is a significant amount of practical work, using software tools including an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing Java applications, and a tool that supports the use of UML. This is a Level 3 course, which makes intellectual demands appropriate to the final year of an honours degree. |
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