State of the Art of Software Development

[bebekT]

Hi,

I am a BEng. in Chemical Engineering and likely interested in informatics, specially on Software Engineering. Currently I get the master degree on it, but still don't get the things I search about, which is The State Of The Art Of Informatics Course (on Software Development).

I wonder how's the structure of Informatics' education that can describe me what courses (fields) or books I should read to gain the knowledge about it effectively.

Thanks,

bbk

 

[chiph]

Have you seen MIT's Open Courseware site?

http://ocw.mit.edu

Chip H.


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[bebekT]

Thanks for the info,

I've seen the site but I got things that close to my search is only the sylabus or steps in engineering a software (or Steps of Software Engineering ).

What I'm searching is such a diagram that hierarchically show what should I learned before I learn other course(s). I mean how and what makes a Software Engineering Department define some courses should learned in 1st degree and so on..

I've read Pressman's book "Software Engineering: A practitioner's approach" and there's a stepping method to develop a software with a good approach. As an Example, a step on the method called "Design Step" which consist of 4 activity and one of them is "Data Design" using an ER Model. I know that to design the ER Model, I should learn "Database Design" course. Then when I deal with "Procedure Design" step, I should have the knowledge of "Algorithm & Programming" course; but to learn "Algorithm & Programming" course, I should learn "Data Structure" course first.

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bebek
Sorry if my language is hard to understand, english is not my daily language :-(

 

[chiph]

So, what you're really asking is "In what order should I study the various topics of Computer Science"?

The MIT site is probably not the best place to find that out, as they just use (apparently random) numbers for their courses. Take a look at this:

http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/crs_cat/dir_CSC.html

The courses are ordered in the approximate order you would take them. All 100-series would be 1st year university students, 200-series for 2nd year students, etc. Although, the 100-series looks like it would be a remedial-level course, as most people wanting a Computer Science degree would probably already know all that info.

Chip H.


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[harebrain]

Go to the ACM Professional Development Centre:

http://pd.acm.org/free_students.cfm

and have a look at their tracks and courses (250 of them.) Anyone can observe the progression of courses. You would, of course, have to join the ACM to take the courses, but there are special rates for students and for residents of "economically developing countries."