SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
VCD4147 | Computational Design | Fall | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi İPEK TORUN |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Instructor SERKAN ŞİMŞEK |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | VCD3115 - Introduction to Multimedia VCD3114 – Interactive Arts & Design |
Course Objectives: | On this course, the students recognize the basics of Computational Design and design scopes of interactive media such as procedural design, algorithmic design, data visualization and code art. They develop applications of conceptual works for interactive media and study software skills to realize this projects. In addition, researches for interactive media fields is identified by the students. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Being able to solve design problems with algorithmic and computational thoughts 2. Advancing the theory and practice on computer arts 3. Advancing the theory and practice on computer programming 4. Developing the interactive design solutions 5. Preparing conceptual, entertainment, game projects. |
1. Computational Design 2. Algorithmic Design 3. CodeArt 4. Interactive Media Design 5. Experience Design 6. Procedural Sound Design 7. Aesthetics & Computation 8. Computer Art History 9. Code Basics |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the Course. Everybody will introduce her/himself. The course will be introduced. | |
2) | Introduction to the Computational Design. Scopes of Computational Design. | |
3) | Computer Art History. Examples of Art & Design Works Announcement: HW1 | |
4) | Code Artists. Examples of Art & Design Works. Announcement: HW2. | |
5) | Programming Environment & Code Basics. Introduction to the Processing Environment. Announcement: HW3. | |
6) | Using “Class” Structures for Design. Programming Skills for Design. Announcement: HW4. | |
7) | Using “Array” Structures for Design. Programming Skills for Design. Announcement: HW5. | |
8) | Using “Transform” Structures for Design. Programming Skills for Design. Announcement: HW6. | |
9) | Using “3D” Structures for Design. Programming Skills for Design. Announcement: HW7. | |
10) | Using “External Libraries” Structures for Design. Programming Skills for Design. Announcement: HW8. | |
11) | Final: Criticise Project Proposal. Developing A Design Project. | |
12) | Final: Project Evaluation. Developing A Design Project. | |
13) | Final: Project Evaluation. Developing A Design Project. | |
14) | Final: Project Evaluation. Developing A Design Project. |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | |
References: | 1 Algorithms for Visual Design - Kostas Terzidiz 2 Programming Interactivity - Joshua Noble 3 Making Things Talk - Tom Igoe 4 Learning Processing - Daniel Shiffman 5 Processing Creative Coding and Computational Art - Ira Greenberg 6 A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists - Casey Reas, Ben Fry |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 4 | % 40 |
Project | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 56 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 49 |
Final | 2 | 20 |
Total Workload | 125 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products. | |
2) | Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems. | |
3) | Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging. | |
4) | Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem. | |
5) | Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation. | |
6) | Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically. | |
7) | Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams. | |
8) | Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems. | |
9) | Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system. | |
10) | Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities. | |
11) | Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life. | |
12) | Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions. | |
13) | Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions. |