Software Conceptual Design

This course will provide learners with an overview of what all is involved in creating conceptual software designs. Specifically, it will take learners through different aspects of understanding, creating and evaluating software conceptual designs. After going through the course, learners will be able to: 1. Think of software in terms of sub-systems, and understand what issues have to be considered in order to design these sub-systems 2. Create a software conceptual design for a given design problem, and model them using Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams 3. Evaluate their designs for functional and non-functional quality attributesPRE-REQUISITE:Learners should have undergone a basic course in programming in any language, and should be familiar with basic programming constructsINDUSTRY SUPPORT:This course can be useful for graduates who wish to be employed in Software/IT companies in software engineering positions.INTENDED AUDIENCE:Nil

Week 1:Deconstructing the software design processWeek 2:Designing Software using the FBS FrameworkWeek 3:Comprehending and Evaluating Software DesignsWeek 4:The Next Steps - Where does one go from here