Projets en informatique 2

Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.

5 credits

30.0 h + 30.0 h

Teacher(s)

Bonaventure Olivier;

Language

French

Prerequisites

These projects need simultaneous acquisition of basic notions of programming as targeted by the course LINFO1101.

Main themes

This teaching unit revolves around programming projects.
The objectives are:

to apply the concepts seen in parallel in LINFO1101 Introduction to Programming;
to model simple situations using computer systems;
to explore various applications of computing, including the use of information from sensors;
to confront professional constraints: group work, respect of deadlines, sense of responsibility;
to acquire transversal skills in taking notes, writing reports, oral presentation.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

Given the learning outcomes of the "Bachelor in Computer science" program, this course contributes to the development, acquisition and evaluation of the following learning outcomes:

S1.I2
S2.1, S2.2, S2.4
S4.1, S4.2, S4.3
S5.2, S5.3, S5.4, S5.5, S5.6

Students who have successfully completed this course will be able to:

analyze a concrete situation-problem requiring the development of a computer application and perceive the role that this application will have to play;
design the computer application corresponding to identified needs by making use of object-oriented programming and justify the design choices;
Implement a computer application that makes good use of Python language elements
realize an application of reduced scale, but correct, modular, readable, and well documented;
implement unit tests to validate the accuracy of a program
use a programming environment with integrated programming tools such as an intelligent editor, compiler, debugger, and tools for handling files, tests, documentation.

Students will have developed methodological and operational skills. In particular, they will have developed their ability to:

contribute to group functioning within the framework of project-type cooperative active learning devices, explain the issues (advantages and disadvantages) of group work and provide some operational guidelines to promote effective group work;
conduct a development process for a computer application
understand a situation-problem described via written documents, an oral presentation and extract what makes it the essence and reformulate it to define the expected result;
establish the specifications and a roadmap for the project;
break down the initial problem into sub-problems that can be easily solved using a computer tool;
schematize the architecture of the application to give a description of high level allowing any computer scientist to quickly perceive the structure;
document the application so that it can easily be adapted later by another computer scientist;
design and perform tests to validate the developed application;
collaborate effectively on application development;
communicate effectively:
write a technical document describing the application developed, the recipients of this document being computer scientists who have not participated in its development but who must adapt it;
write a coherent and structured project report to convince of the success of the project;

Present with a multimedia support the solution developed so as to convince him of the success of the project.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content

The course assumes a basic knowledge of the programming language python as seen in LINFO1101. Students work in groups to solve more complex problems than those covered in the programming course. The emphasis is on written communication. Two different projects are organized during the semester.
During the first project, students should be able to :

work effectively in groups
write correct programs
write tests that validate the proper functioning of their programs
document their programs and associated tests
provide a critical look at the work of other student groups to help them improve (constructive peer review)
evaluate the performance of their programs

During the second project, students must be able to :

work effectively in groups
find libraries and python modules that solve similar problems
compare the features and performance of different solutions to the same problem
document and analyze these differences in functionality and performance

Teaching methods

Project learning in groups of x

Evaluation methods

Evaluation of the group work of the first project on the basis of the rendered project, its documentation (40%)
Continuous evaluation of the student's individual work and contributions to the peer review of the first project (10%)
Evaluation of the group work of the second project on the basis of the rendered project, its documentation (40%)
Continuous evaluation of the student's individual work and contributions to the peer review of the second project (10%)

The weighting may be modified in the event of the student's actual non-participation in the group's work as well as in the event of insufficient or very insufficient individual marks. Students who fail in June will be able to do an individual project again during the summer. This project will account for 66% of the points, the remaining 34% will be obtained in June.

Faculty or entity

INFO

Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme

Sigle

Credits

Prerequisites

Aims

Bachelor in Computer Science

SINF1BA