Objectives
Students will
Discuss merits and demerits of usage of IT in various fields.
Gain knowledge of legal and ethical issues in the use of IT.
Gain knowledge of occupational hazards in the use of IT equipment.
Practice suitable precautions to protect hardware and software.
Describe structure of an information processing organization
Gain knowledge of academic and career paths available in IT.
Course Contents
Introduction
Project planning, feasibility study
Systems analysis, requirements definition.
Systems design
Implementation
Integration and testing
Acceptance, installation, deployment
Maintenance
Project Presentation
What is a Project
Individual /group completed & well-documented project, is a clear demonstration of the students capability to handle /solve a common problem /task by using his knowledge & practical effort by using a computer, hardware and software environments available.
The aims of a project
The aims of a completed project are to, Asses the demonstrated capability of the student in solving a common problem, to demonstrate the application of a computer to solve common problems by using the available software & hardware environments, & to demonstrate & explain ideas of the project in a standard documentation.
Few such simple features can identify a project of this type; it should target to solve a common problem in the society, which may include a database, algorithms, hardware & software or menu systems, inputs & outputs with a set of given routines.
Unsuitable project topics
For both computing and information technology projects, the system must involve a user inputting data of some kind, and obtaining output, the production of a documentation about some aspect of computing is therefore not suitable.Examples:
A project, which consists of a comparative study of two word processors (software comparisons).
A project, of production of a magazine using a desktop publishing system (documentations only).
A project, of general description of how to use a particular spreadsheet or database or database package (explaining common packages).
Suitable project topics
Project work must run on a PC or related computer system with the available software & hardware with a clear & well-documented standard documentation.
It should target to solve a common problem in the society, which may include, a database, algorithms, hardware & software or menu systems, inputs & outputs with a set of given routines, with a clear & completed documentation.
Suitable project topics
Student Registration
Handling Facilities fees
Class Registration
Preparation of Marks sheet
Duty roster in the class room cleaning
Collection of data including Addresses of Friends
Collection of Rainfall data in student residential area. This data helps farmers to predict weather
Daily duty reports of teachers
Handling sports meet data, selecting students according to the houses, handling events, preparing reports
Preparation of activity plan materials
Identify shapes whether it is triangular or not,
Identify health conditions
Computer Lab Computer Booking System
Updating GCE O/L and A/L Results
Analysis of Sports meet Results
Maintaining records on home income expenditure
Word Pronunciation
Hardware Control – `Port programming
School Entrance Security System
Class Duty Chart
Collection of Herbal/medicinal Plants and other Rarely Available plants
Students Progress
Goals:
Selection of students according to the leadership
Identifying weaknesses of students
Issuing character certificates
Preparation of health report according to daily health condition students environmental factors
Maintaining staff records
Finding relevant details of teachers when required
Students’ duty chart
Classroom environment
Toilets
Surrounding
Project planning, feasibility study
Establishes a high-level view of the intended project and determines its goals.
Systems design
Describes desired features and operations in detail, including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams, pseudo code and other documentation.
Implementation
The real code is written here.
Integration and testing
Brings all the pieces together into a special testing environment, then checks for errors, bugs and interoperability.
Acceptance, installation, deployment
The final stage of initial development, where the software is put into production and runs actual business.
Maintenance
What happens during the rest of the software’s life: changes, correction, additions, moves to a different computing platform and more. This, the least glamorous and perhaps most important step of all, goes on seemingly forever.
Project Presentation
System Analysis
Data and Facts gathering techniques
Interviews
Questionnaires
Observations
Sampling of existing Documents
System Design
User requirements
Project boundary
Resource limitation
Identifying Required
data inputs
Outputs
Data tables of their system
Computer hardware of their system
System Implementation
Example
Student’s Class Register
Student report
School library
Student Admission
School book shop
School canteen
Student Admission System
Design a computer based system to handle students admission to a school
( this system should facilitate to store Data of each student’s Name, Date of birth Address,Grade, Admission number, House, Sex, Guardian and retrieve information such as grade 10 students, under 15 students, all girls in grade 5 etc.
Questionnaires
Questionnaires are a series of questions designed to get specific information from their readers (participants). Some questionnaires require yes/no answers; others ask for a choice from a set of pre-supplied answers, and others ask for a longer response or comment. Sometimes questionnaires are sent in electronic form, and sometimes they are given to the users on paper.
Interviews
Interviews involve asking the participants a set of questions verbally. Often interviews are face-to-face, but they donft have to be. If interviewed in their own work or home setting, people may find it easier to talk about their activities and respond by showing the interviewer what they do and what systems and other artifacts they use. Interacting with a human encourages people to respond effectively.
Studying Documentation
Procedures and rules are often written down in manuals and these are a good source of data. Such documentation should not be used as the only source as everyday practices may augment them and may have been devised by those concerned to make the procedures work in a practical setting. Thus, an idealized account is given in the manuals, as compared to everyday practices. There are no targeted rules to decide which methods are the most appropriate for identifying specific research needs.
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