The following course Computer II is provided in its entirety by Atlantic International University's "Open Access Initiative" which strives to make knowledge and education readily available to those seeking advancement regardless of their socio-economic situation, location or other previously limiting factors. The University's Open Courses are free and do not require any purchase or registration, they are open to the public.

The course in Computer II contains the following:

• Lessons in video format with explaination of theoratical content.
• Complementary activities that will make research more about the topic , as well as put into practice what you studied in the lesson. These activities are not part of their final evaluation.
• Texts supporting explained in the video.

The Administrative Staff may be part of a degree program paying up to three college credits. The lessons of the course can be taken on line Through distance learning. The content and access are open to the public according to the "Open Access" and " Open Access " Atlantic International University initiative. Participants who wish to receive credit and / or term certificate , must register as students.

Lesson 1:Introduction to Software

Software engineering is essential for the functioning of national and international societies. National infrastructures and utilities are controlled by computer-based systems and most electrical products include a computer and controlling software. Industrial manufacturing and distribution is completely computerized, as is the financial system. The music industry, computer games, and film and television, is software dependent.

Lesson 2: Software Process Models

These activities may involve the development of software from scratch in a standard programming language like Java or C. However, business applications are not necessarily developed in this way. New business software is now often developed by extending and modifying existing systems or by configuring and integrating off-the-shelf software or system components.

Lesson 3: Agile software development

They have to respond to new opportunities and markets, changing economic conditions, and the emergence of competing products and services. We have said that Software is part of almost all business operations, new software must be developed quickly to take advantage of new opportunities and to respond to competitive pressure. Rapid development and delivery is therefore now often the most critical requirement for software systems. In fact, many businesses are willing to trade off software quality and compromise on requirements to achieve faster deployment of the software that they need.

Lesson 4: Extreme Programming

Extreme programming (XP) is best known and most widely used of the agile methods. It was named extreme programming because the approach was developed by pushing recognized good practices to extreme levels. In XP, several new versions of a system may be developed by different programmers, integrated and tested in a day.

Lesson 5: Requirements Discovery

Requirements discovery sometimes called requirements elicitation is the process of gathering information about the required system and existing systems, and distilling the user and system requirements from this information. Sources of information during the requirements discovery phase include: § Documentation § System stakeholders § Specifications of similar systems § You interacting with stakeholders through interviews and observation § Scenarios and prototypes to help stakeholders understand what the system will be like.

Lesson 6: Evolution of Software

Software development does not stop when a system is delivered but continues throughout the lifetime of the system. After a system has been deployed, it inevitably has to change if it is to remain useful. Business changes and changes to user expectations generate new requirements for the existing software.

Lesson 7: Security Design

Security engineering focuses on how to develop and maintain software systems that can resist malicious attacks intended to damage a computer-based system or its data. Security threats can be threats to the: • Confidentiality of a system or its data • Integrity of a system or its data • Availability of a system or its data

Lesson 8: Project Management

The objective of this lesson is to introduce software project management and two important management activities; risk management and people management. The project manager’s job is to ensure that the software project meets and overcomes these constraints as well as delivering high-quality software. Good management cannot guarantee project success. However, bad management usually results in project failure.

 

Lesson 9: Managing people

As a project manager, you should be aware of the potential problems of people management and should try to develop people management skills. Four critical factors in people management: 1. Consistency - People in a project team should all be treated in a comparable way. No one expects all rewards to be identical but people should not feel that their contribution to the organization is undervalued. 2. Respect - Different people have different skills and managers should respect these differences. All members of the team should be given an opportunity to make a contribution. In some cases, of course, you will find that people simply don’t fit into a team and they cannot continue, but it is important not to jump to conclusions about this at an early stage in the project.

Lesson 10: Project Planning

Periodically throughout the project, when you modify your plan in light of experience gained and information from monitoring the progress of the work. You learn more about the system being implemented and capabilities of your development team. This information allows you to make more accurate estimates of how long the work will take. Furthermore, the software requirements are likely to change and this usually means that the work

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