Software Development

Software Development

Current and proposed courses

• For majors:
  1. CPT 141 Internet Foundations, Technologies, and Development
  2. CPT 155 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
  3. CPT 255 Programming for the Internet
  4. CPT 295/350 Object-Oriented Programming
  5. CPT 355 Software Development for Mobile Computers
  6. CPT 405/581Y Software Development Methodologies
  7. CPT 450 Enterprise Application Development
  8. CPT 465 Senior Software Development Project
• Service courses:
  1. CPT 105 Introduction to C Programming
  2. CPT 175 Visual Programming
  3. CPT 267 Introduction to C++ Language Programming

Contact: Prof. Kyle Lutes

List of objectives

• Give students a solid foundation of computer programming fundamentals.
• Where possible, require team projects to help students build team communication skills.
• Give majors early exposure to Object-Oriented Programming principals.
• Give majors early exposure to Internet technologies and Internet application development.
• Give majors early exposure to relational databases and Structured Query Language (SQL).
• In addition to teaching theories, give students programming exercises that require students to use these theories to solve real-world, business-oriented problems.
• Expose students to heterogeneous architectures and development environments and tools (i.e. C#, Java, Unix, Windows, etc.)
• Teach courses using technologies as how they are currently being used in industry.
• Design required programming courses based on the concepts to be learned rather than based on how to use specific products.
• Include selective (elective) software development courses to allow students to get experience using an even wider variety of technologies.
• Teach introductory topics in introductory courses and advanced topics in advanced courses.
• Teach the introductory courses in a manner that gives the students the opportunity to see that developing software can be rewarding and fun, and that most interested students have the ability to become professional software developers.
• At the end of each course, students should have learned a skill that is immediately useful. Example:
  • At the end of the Internet literacy course (CPT 141), students should be able to develop web sites consisting of static HTML pages.
  • At the end of the first programming course (CPT 155), students should be able to develop simple, but useful Windows applications.
  • At the end of the second programming course (CPT 255), students should be able to develop dynamic, data-driven web applications.
  • At the end of the third programming course (CPT 350) students should be able to develop data-driven, dynamic web applications using medium to advance object-oriented techniques.
  • At the end of the fourth programming course (CPT 450) students should be able to develop large, data-driven, multi-user, multi-tiered, component based, dynamic web applications using an object-oriented programming language.