EE102 Software Engineering I

Module co-ordinator: Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean

Brief Description | Goals and Learning Outcomes | Syllabus | Course Textbooks

Brief Description

This module introduces the students to the words of computers and computer networks and makes sure they acquire basic programming skills necessary for the module EE105 Software Engineering II. In particular the module teaches the students how to approach a problem, to devise a computer-solvable solution, to implement it using C programming language and test it.

Goals and Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this course, the student will:

have learnt fundamental information about computers, computer networks and major services proivided by computers

have been introduced to Software Engineering and Programming

have acquired basic programming skills using the C language

Syllabus

The world of computers
Software and Hardware
Computer networks
Major services
Storing information
Software engineering
Programming using the C language

Course Textbooks

Recommended textbooks (Purchase optional)

Kernighan and Ritchie, The C Programming Language, Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 1988
Fischer, Eggert, Ross, Applied C: An introduction and more, McGraw-Hill, 2001
Hanley, Koffman and Horvath, C Program Design for Engineers, Addison-Wesley, 1995
Hanley and Koffman, Problem Solving and Program Design in C, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1996

These textbooks are also in the library.

Lecture Notes

Section 0 - Introduction
Section 1 - World of Computers
Section 2 - Software and Hardware
Section 3 - Computer Networks
Section 4 - Major Services
Section 5 - Storing Information
Section 6 - Software Engineering
Section 7 - Introduction to Programming
Section 8 - Applications

Laboratory manual

HTML Version (September 2005)
PDF Version (September 2005)

Laboratory results

Final Lab Results

Links

C Source File Directory: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~ee102/2005-2006/src/

This directory provides access to all C source files introduced in the lectures or labs, as the module progresses

The GNU C Compiler (gcc) is recommended for use with this module as it is a high performance compiler, available free for a wide variety of platforms.

For 32-bit PC platforms (Windows), use the Cygnus GNU-Win32 port of gcc: http://www.cygwin.com/
gnu-win32 is a comprehensive package, with many additional tools over and above the compiler. This software is available on the BURKS (Brighton University Resource Kit for Students) CD set available in the campus bookstore. In addition to gcc itself, you also need to use some implementation of the C Standard Library. I again recommend the GNU C Library (this is included with the gnu-win32 package). Detailed documentation for the standard library is available at: http://www.cs.utah.edu/csinfo/texinfo/glibc-manual-0.02/library_toc.html

For text editing of all sorts (C source files, lab reports, etc.) GNU emacs can be used. This is available on both UNIX and Windows platforms.

For more information, check: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html

There is a very wide range of other resources available on the Internet, on the general subject of C programming.

It is recommended to use search engines such as http://www.google.com or indexing services such as http://www.yahoo.co.uk
For example when searching for "C Programming" the following site was found that provides a nice informal and short introduction into C programming: http://www.strath.ac.uk/IT/Docs/Ccourse/

Tutorials

Assignment

EE102 Sem. One Assignment EE102 - Final Results
EE102 Repeat Assignment Note: The assignment is worth 80% of the final mark.

Exam

There is no exam associated to this module.

Author: Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean

Latest revision: May 20th, 2006.

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