Major Project 1 COMP 8800

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Identify and evaluate opportunities, needs for real world problems, and/or empirical research in an applied computing environment.
• Identify a real world complex problem that needs to be solved with a computing solution.
• Identify the project objectives, their importance, and how they relate to current practice and advances in technology and research in the computing environment.
• Access and interpret current primary source research material using the Internet, professional journals, and other sources of research.
• Critically analyze and evaluate published literature with respect to the project’s objectives.
• Identify the project requirements
• Present possible solutions of the problem with a unique view via synthesis and further exploration.
• Analyse the project’s feasibility and create a proposal (including a draft design, relevant diagrams, a review of existing literature, and test plan) using principles of software engineering.
• Implement a proof-of-concept prototype that demonstrates the feasibility of the project.
• Design a complex, ‘real-life’ major project.​

Effective as of Fall 2023

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