Instructor: Ron Vyhmeister E-Mail: vyhmeisr@andrews.edu Office: CSH 215A, 471-3458 Home: 473-3732 (before 10 pm)Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00-5:00 pm. Other times by appointment.
1. Describe the major phases of the system development life cycle from memory. 2. Produce a structured system specification for a simple system. 3. Develop cost-benefit analyses, gather data, and exercise project control. Proficiency in the following tools will be expected: Data Flow Diagrams Structured English Data Dictionary Decision Trees Entity-Relationship Diagrams
A 95% Midterm Exam 30% A- 90 Final Exam 35% B+ 87 Assignments B 83 & Quizzes 35% B- 80 C+ 76 C 71 C- 65 D 55Late work receives a grade of 0. I will grade it for your edification, if you would like. If you must be late to (or miss) some class period or test, please make arrangements before-hand. I do not make arrangements after the fact, and missing a test or quiz means a 0. Quizzes will only be handed out to those who are there at the beginning of the quiz. If you are late, you will not be given the opportunity to take the quiz. Quizzes may or may not be announced. You are responsible at any time for the material covered the last class period, as well as the assigned reading for the current period.
September
26 | Introduction, course Overview Chapter 1: System Development Methodologies Chapter 2: Taking a Structured Approach and Using Modeling Tools |
October 3 | Chapter 2: Continued Chapter 3: Systems Development Management and Automation |
October 10 | Chapter 3: Systems Development Management ... (cont.) Chapter 4: Systems Planning |
October 17 | Chapter 5: Systems Analysis |
October 24 | Chapter 6: General Systems Design Chapter 7: System Evaluation and Selection |
October 31 | Exam 1: Chapters 1-7 |
November 7 | Chapter 8: Designing the Systems Output Chapter 9: Designing the Systems Input |
November 14 | Chapter 10: Designing the Systems Process Chapter 11: Designing the Systems Database |
November 21 | Chapter 11: Designing the Systems Database (cont) Chapter 12: Designing the Systems Control |
November 28 | Chapter 13: Designing Networks Chapter 14: Designing Computer Architectures |
December 5 | Final Exam |