LEARNING OUTCOMES

Conceptual design and programming concepts based on components.

Technologies and productivity tools in use in the professional field.

Integration of design and programming skills acquired during programming courses, data bases and software engineering.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the course end, through self-study and programming practice, students

• will be able to implement small projects in a DotNet environment
• will have become familiar with the basic functionality of Visual Studio
• will have experimented with the use of unit testing to improve the quality of the code and acquired the basic concepts of this technique
• will have studied the model underlying the latest generation versioning systems and used in practice GitHub
• will have learned to develop code that meets the specifications
• will have learned to use the Entity Framework to interact with a SQL-Server database

PREREQUISITES

• Imperative and object-oriented programming concepts (data structures, loops, inheritance, exceptions, typing systems...)
• Fundamentals and design of Data Bases (tables, queries, constraints...)
• Software life-cycle (design, implementation, testing...)

TEACHING METHODS

Teaching is composed partly of frontal lessons and partly of guided laboratory activities, where the techniques and principles introduced during frontal lessons are applied.

During the guided laboratories, the issues to be solved in the final project will be addressed in isolation. Active participation is therefore to be considered as a precondition for a successful project activity with limited effort.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

TAP introduces the mainstream technologies, methodologies and tools for software development. As a "side effect", students will improve their programming skills.

The course develops two main topics:

1. In-the-small programming. Students will have to prove their capabilities on

• reading, understanding and implementing a detailed specification
• performing unit testing tasks, and using the results to correct any error in their code
• designing and using a small database

A reasonable familiarity with these activities is a prerequisite of the course. TAP will address the integration of these aspects.

2. Component development, modular programming principles and reuse; Students will need to learn:

• economic and historical reasons for re-use
• concepts at the base of components and component models
• framework / platform concepts
• the impact of the use of reusable components on the development of a system
• peculiarities of the process of developing a reusable component

The concepts outlined will be made more concrete through project activities that will take place from the beginning of the lesson period and will also allow students to become familiar with various development and testing tools in the .NET environment.

This teaching is mandatory for the curriculum TECHNOLOGY-ORIENTED and can be selected as elective for the other curriculum

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference texts and instrumentation / technology documentation will be made known/available on Aulaweb and in the course slides.