DATS3900 Bachelor Thesis Course description

The students shall develop skills in carrying out, in an independent and systematic manner, an extensive, practically oriented project based on a client’s requirements. The students shall demonstrate that they can translate their knowledge into practical solutions. They shall be capable of applying basic rules for user quality to analysis, design, implementation, interfaces and documentation. They shall be capable of producing satisfactory documentation for computer programs and systems concerning products, operation and use, adapted to the different recipients of this documentation, and of providing an expedient description of their own work process based on given standards.

Students must be registered in the third year and have completed at least 100 credits from the first and second years by 1 October before they are assigned a topic for their bachelor’s thesis.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge The student is capable of:

• explaining how projects are managed and how progress is ensured
• explaining the different stages of a development project and their importance
• explaining the structure of final documentation
• explaining the chosen technical architecture and discussing its advantages and disadvantages

Skills

The student is capable of:

• developing project and work plans
• setting up development and test environments
• developing and testing large-scale computer programs in groups
• installing a production version of the system
• preparing final documentation of the project, containing both process, product and user documentation

General competence

The student is capable of:

• cooperating on an extensive computer technology project that culminates in an end product comprising both computer programs and documentation

Project supervision. Project work in groups. The groups normally comprise 3 to 4 students. The students shall carry out a project corresponding to the scope of the course, preferably for an external client. Detailed information and deadlines for the different phases of the project work will be provided on the course’s web page and in the teaching plan that is announced at the start of the semester. A selection of workshops and seminars.

The following work requirements must be approved in order to be qualified for the exam:

• A poster describing key elements of the bachelor project.

Project assignment in groups (3-4 students).

The project assignment is divided into the four parts ‘product/result’, ‘process’, ‘documentation’ and ‘presentation’. The final grade is given on the basis of an overall assessment of the four parts.

The exam result can be appealed.

All.

Grade scale A-F.

Two examiners (one internal and one external).