CSC 306 System Analysis and design COURSE PARTICULARS COURSE INSTRUCTORS COURSE DESCRIPTION

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1 CSC 306 System Analysis and design COURSE PARTICULARS Course Code: CSC 306 Course Title: System analysis and Design No. of Units: 3 Course Duration: Two hours of theory per week for 15 weeks. Status: Compulsory Course Address: Course Webpage: Prerequisite: NIL COURSE INSTRUCTORS Dr B.M Kuboye Room 8, Adamu Abdullahi Academic Office complex Building, Dept. of Computer science, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Phone: [email protected] and Mrs. O. D. Alowolodu Room 6 Digital Resource center Building, Dept. of computer Science, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Phone: [email protected] COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed primarily for students in computer science. However, it also meets the need of students in other fields, as a course that provides adequate knowledge in the analysis, design, and development of an information system. Importance is placed on system characteristics, project management, prototyping, and systems development life cycle phases. At the end of this course, students should be able to analyze problems and design appropriately the solution required using a combination of tools and techniques. 1

2 COURSE OBJECTIVES The objectives of this course are to let students: have understanding of the five phases of the system development life cycle; describe how systems analysts interact with stakeholders and information system; know how to analyze and design systems; know how to evaluate systems development alternatives; work together as a team on assigned projects. COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES / COMPETENCIES Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: (Knowledge based) explain how the five phases of the system development relate together analyse the problem of a system and design a new system; understand the use of computer system development tools; (Skills) use the system development tools to: o evaluate an existing system; o analyse new system; o design new system; determine methods for evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of a system; develop a good documentation for the developed system. GRADING SYSTEM FOR THE COURSE This course will be graded as follows: Class Attendance 5% Assignments 15% Test(s) 20% Final Examination 60% TOTAL 100% 2

3 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS Attendance: It is expected that every student will be in class for lectures and also participate in all practical exercises. Attendance records will be kept and used to determine each person s qualification to sit for the final examination. In case of illness or other unavoidable cause of absence, the student must communicate as soon as possible with any of the instructors, indicating the reason for the absence. Academic Integrity: Violations of academic integrity, including dishonesty in assignments, examinations, or other academic performances are prohibited. You are not allowed to make copies of another person s work and submit it as your own; that is plagiarism. All cases of academic dishonesty will be reported to the University Management for appropriate sanctions in accordance with the guidelines for handling students misconduct as spelt out in the Students Handbook. Assignments and Group Work: Students are expected to submit assignments as scheduled. Failure to submit an assignment as at when due will earn you zero for that assignment. Only under extenuating circumstances, for which a student has notified any of the instructors in advance, will late submission of assignments be permitted. Code of Conduct in Lecture Rooms and Laboratories: Students should turn off their cell phones during lectures. Students are prohibited from engaging in other activities (such as texting, watching videos, etc.) during lectures. Food and drinks are not permitted in the laboratories. READING LIST 1 Jeffrey L. Whitten, Lonnie D. Bentley, Kevin C. Dittman (2001). Systems Analysis and Design Methods 5 th Edition. McGraw-Hill. 1 Bolanle Ojokho. Lecture notes on Introduction to Systems Analysis and Design. 1 Unknown Author. Introduction to Systems and Systems Development Life cycle. Legend. 1- Available as Personal Collection 3

4 COURSE OUTLINE WEEK 1 WEEK 2 Week Topic Remarks Introduction A. Information system components B. Types on information systems C. System development life cycles D. The systems analyst Systems planning A. Systems requests B. Objectives C. Preliminary investigation At the end of this class, the students would have gotten the general overview of system development. Students would have acquired the knowledge needed to plan a system WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6 WEEK 7 WEEK 8 WEEK 9 Determining requirements A. Interviews B. Other fact-finding techniques C. Recording facts D. JAD and RAD E. Object-oriented systems development Analyzing requirements A. Data flow diagrams B. Data dictionary C. Process description Evaluating alternatives A. Software alternatives B. Evaluating software packages C. Hardware alternatives D. CASE tools Continuous Assessment Systems design A. Output design B. Input design C. File and database design D. System architecture Systems implementation A. Quality assurance B. Application development C. Documentation D. Management approval E. Installation F. Evaluation G. System operation Describing process specifications and structured decisions; The system 4 The required models and tools for determining requirements must have been learnt. Analysis requirement tools must have been exposed to the students. System modeling tools must have been made known to the students. The students should have been able to design a System. The group projects will be given out

5 WEEK 10 WEEK 11 WEEK 12 WEEK 13 WEEK 14 WEEK 15 proposal. Designing the file or database Designing the user interface Designing data Documenting the design phase Software engineering and implementation Quality assurance through software engineering; Implementing the information system Defense of Class Project. Revision Database design would have exposed to the students. Group projects sub mission 5