INFORMATION SYSTEMS 610:   SYSTEMS DESIGN TECHNIQUES

                                          Syllabus, Spring, 2001                         

 

Classes:            Monday, 6:30- 9:00 pm                          Tuesday, 3:30 – 5:30

Place:               MUGC  Main Building                            Marshall (Huntington)

                        KAN GC  Room 136                                Smith Hall  Room 518

Prerequisite:     Successful Completion of IS-605 (Systems Analysis Techniques)

                                    Or Permission Of Instructor

 

Text:                "Systems Analysis and Design"   Fourth Edition

                                         Kendall & Kendall   Prentice Hall

  ISBN:  0-13-646621-4

Description:

Physical design of information systems: hardware selection: software design: database considerations: program development: software structuring techniques: cost performance trade-offs: system implementation: evaluation and optimization techniques.

 

Facilitator:       John Biros

Office Phone    (304) 746-1941

E-Mail              jbiros@marshall.edu

 

                                           COURSE DISCUSSION

This course is directed toward Information Systems students who may want to work in data processing proper (programmer, programmer/analyst, system designer), and to students in other programs who want to study information systems development as a minor concentration.  The normal progression in the MUGC Information Systems curriculum is to precede this course with IS 605, System  Analysis.  The analysis project created in the prior course serves as input into IS 610.  The output of IS 610 can then serve as a natural bridge into IS 699, Final Project.  The Design course is required and will be a valuable foundation for the later courses in the program.   The system analysis methodology presented is the traditional "Structured" methodology,  which has been in use for about 20 years.  Interspersed are concepts on the "Object Oriented" methodology which may be more applicable to some newer hardware/software technology.

 

The course also includes a very strong project component.

 

GRADING:        8          Homework Assignments   80                   A          496 - 550

                        8          Quizzes                         120                   B          441 - 495

                        1          System Design Project    300                   C          below 441

                        1          Class Participation                        50

                                                                                    -----

                                                                                    550

January 11, 2001

 

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES (Subject to change at any class meeting)

 

No

Date

Subject

Chapter

Other

1

08-Jan

Introduction -- Administratiive Matters

General Review

9,10,11

 

2

15-Jan

Martin Luther King Day

No Class

 

 

3

22-Jan

General Review

Business Applications

9,10,11,12,13,14

 

4

29-Jan

Designing Output               

Report Layouts

15

Quiz - 15

5

05-Feb

Designing Output

Screen Layouts

15

 

6

12-Feb

Designing Inputs

Form Design

16

Quiz - 16

7

19-Feb

Designing Inputs

Screen Layouts

16

 

8

26-Feb

Designing Files

Flat Files

17

Quiz - 17

9

05-Mar

Designing Files

Data Base Design

17

 

10

12-Mar

User Interface

18

Quiz - 18

11

19-Mar

Data Entry

19

Quiz - 19

12

26-Mar

Software Engineering

20

Quiz - 20

13

02-Apr

Software Engineering

20

 

14

09-Apr

SPRING BREAK

 

 

15

16-Apr

Implementation

21

Quiz - 21

16

23-Apr

Object Orientated Analysis & Design

22

Quiz - 22

17

30-Apr

PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

 

 

18

07-May

FINAL EXAM -- PRESENTATIONS