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Revision as of 20:51, 11 June 2019
Overview
| Course | Computer Science Senior Seminar |
|---|---|
| Institution | Dickinson College |
| Instructor(s) | Grant Braught, Dickinson College |
| Term | First offered as COMP491/492 in Academic Year 2016-17 at Dickinson College. Revised for the 2017-18 Academic Year. |
| Course Overview | A two-semester required senior capstone including perspective on and experience with H/FOSS projects. In the first semester students complete readings, exercises and activities that familiarize them with H/F/OSS philosophy/community/tools. They complete exercises to help them select an H/FOSS project in which to participate and form teams. They then begin a series of exercises that include: Installing the project as a user; Installing the project as a developer; Rebuilding the project from source; Running the test suite; Verifying bugs from the issue tracker (Bug Gardening); and Fixing bugs. During the second semester students continue work on their selected H/F/OSS project fixing bugs and proposing additional contributions to the project that have value both to them and their H/FOSS community. Students also complete readings on contemporary and ethical issues in computing and participate in class discussions on these topics. |
| Course Length | Two 14-week semesters. |
| Student Characteristics | Typically offered to 10-20 senior computer science majors per year. |
| Prerequisites | This course was designed for use in the final year of a Computer Science major at a small liberal arts college. Students having completed the first three years of an undergraduate CS curriculum should be well prepared for this course. Our students typically have completed the core courses and are competent in: Object Oriented Programming (2 courses in Java), Data Structures (in Java), Analysis of Algorithms, Programming Languages (including C/C++, Python, Scheme, Prolog), Organization and Architecture. They may also have completed additional electives (e.g. Operating Systems, Networking, AI, Databases) and other core courses (e.g. Theory of Computation). |
| Infrastructure | The course outlined below assumes 28 75-minute course meetings (2 per week) per semester, plus a 3-hour final exam period. Students are expected to average between 8 and 12 hours of work outside of class per week.
Many of the activities and assignments rely on the use of particular technologies. These can be substituted with equivalent technologies but are currently:
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Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Recognize the ethical, legal and social implications of computing.
- Be exposed to H/F/OSS and Software Engineering topics.
- Improve their ability to work (reading/modifying/testing) within a substantial existing code base.
- Interact with a community of developers and users.
- Deepen their ability to write clearly and develop their mastery of specific forms of disciplinary writing.
- Be prepared for graduate study or a professional career in computing.
