COURSE:  SOFTWARE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

Leader of Learning: Ms Fiona Spinks

2 units for each of Year 11 and HSC / Board Developed Course

EXCLUSIONS:  Nil.

Course Description:

The Year 11 Course introduces students to the basic concepts of computer software design and development.  It does this by looking at the different ways in which software can be developed, the tools that can be used to assist in this process and by considering the interaction between software and the other components of the computer system. 

The HSC Course builds on the Year 11 Course and asks students to develop and document software using a variety of data structures and language facilities.  Through this, they will learn to solve a number of interesting and relevant software problems.

Course Content:

Year 11 Course:

• Concepts and Issues in the Design and Development of Software 30%

  • • Social and ethical issues

    • Hardware and software

    • Software development approaches.

• Introduction to Software Development    50%

  • • Defining the problem and understanding the problem;

    • Planning and designing software solutions

    • Implementing software solutions

    • Testing and evaluating soft solutions

    • Maintaining software solutions

• Developing Software Solutions    20%

HSC Course:

• Development and Impact of Software Solutions    15%

  • • Social and ethical issues

    • Application of software development approaches

• Software Development Cycle    40%

  • • Defining and understanding the problem

    • Planning and design of software solutions

    • Implementation of software solutions

    • Testing and evaluation of software solutions

    • Maintenance of software solutions

• Developing a Solution Package    25%

  • • Programming paradigms     OR

    • The interrelationship between software and hardware

Course Requirements:  

Practical experience should occupy a minimum of 20% of the Year 11 course and a minimum of 25% of the HSC course. There are software and course specifications. (Languages: This is for students to develop software for different scenarios’ used-unity, python, java, C, ardino and micro bit.)

Cost:

• Year 11 $70.00  (covers computing competitions)

• Year 12 $25.00