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Commercial Programming

The module is designed to expose you to various CS/SE tools and techniques used in the "real world."

The content is provided by external speakers, and these guests of the School participate in the assessment process.

The overall aim is to ensure that students understand the issues relating to complex systems used in industry, the public sector, and other areas. Such systems will be larger than anything a student will typically have used/developed - but sometimes an industrial "year-out" will provide relevant experience. These systems require complex analysis, detailed specification, and intensive monitoring. They can cost millions, and save millions. Such systems also have complex institutional and social ramifications, and there may be difficult legal and ethical issues to be resolved. Professionalism requires that Software Engineers know about all these facets of complex systems.

In the initial phase of the module students can still make suggestions as to whom they wish to be invited.

The module is 100% continuously assessed and consists of 11 weeks of two lectures per week.

Students will have to write two reports on topics allocated by the module providers, on subjects presented by the guest lecturers. In the allocation the module providers will consider students' preferences. Some literature will be provided by the guest lecturers, it is, however, part of the assignment to find suitable literature.

•  Fri 28 Oct 2011 Submission of preferences for first report
• Tue 3 Nov 2011 Allocation for first reports
• Thu 1 Dec 2011 Submission of first report, midnight (i.e. end of the day)
• Fri 2nd Dec 2011 Submission of preferences for second report
• Fri 9th Dec 2011 Allocation for second report
• Mon 10 Jan 2012 Submission of second report, midnight (i.e. end of the day).

There will be a penalty for late submissions of 10% for any 24 hours or parts thereof. No submission after 10 calendar days.

Note that we try to give you a swift feedback, but that we have to wait before we can give back provisional marks for the first (second) reports until all reports of the first (second) round have been marked and moderated.

Further information on the assessment, submission of preferences and reports is available from the General Information page.