Course Overview

Today, modern teaching principles goes from being lecture based to becoming more student active. At the same time, new forms of education means more collaboration and problem solving. This course is organized as a project, so-called PPBL, Project and Problem Based Learning, ie, learning occurs through a large group project and there are minimal traditional lectures. The focus is on project and problem-based learning, so-called active learning, as opposed to passive and one-way learning methods as traditional lectures are. ...

Do you have Questions, need Help or need to Communicate? - In this course Microsoft Teams will be used for communication, questions, guiadance, assistance, etc. Very often someone else is wondering about the same as you - or perhaps someone else has experienced the same thing and found a solution for the problem? Need help outside normal office hours? Perhaps a fellow student can help you if you ask your questions here? For example, if you have installation problems, etc., a fellow student can usually respond better than the supervisor can (outside scheduled hours, evenings, weekends, etc.). You also learn a lot from helping each other.

Textbooks

The following textbooks will be used in this course:

Additional Textbooks and Resources:

Online Textbooks from O’Reilly For Higher Education (the University has a subscription, so you can use it for free!):

Essentials of Software Engineering (Frank Tsu et al.)

Software Engineering (Saikat Dutt, et al.)

Other Resources:

• www.w3schools.com - C#, Web Development (HTML, CSS, ...), etc.
• O’Reilly For Higher Education - Lots of free ebooks within Programming and Software Engineering
• LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) - Video Resourses within Programming, etc. The university has a subscription, so you can use it for free!
• Stackoverflow

Tools

These are the main tools we will use in this course:

• Azure DevOps Note! You don't need to install it! You need to create an account and then you can use it within your web browser and inside Visual Studio (it is integrated with Visual Studio). Introduction to Azure DevOps.
• Teams. Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform where you can share files and documents, having vide calls, chats, etc. A Team will be set up for you, you just need to download the software.
• Visual Studio We will use Visual Studio as our main Development Tool.
• SQL Server Express Edition is recommended. Note! You need to install both SQL Server + SQL Server Management Studio.

In addition we will use lots of other tools and software, see the specific topic pages in the course schedule below.

Course Schedule

Course Registration (first time only!) Quiz System

Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:15-14:00 and Fridays 10:15-14:00 @ Room C-139a

Software Engineering Topics - Week by Week (YouTube Videos)

Teaching staff:  Hans-Petter Halvorsen (HPH), Olav Dæhli (OD), Nils-Olav Skeie (NOS)