Do you have a career in the software industry? Are you a software developer who want to unveil your skills in order to build innovative software products? This course will introduce you to the skills necessary to create software. We will explain how people from different professions can work together in order to create innovative software. We will also present the most important activities for generating effective software products and services to meet tomorrow’s demands.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
Certification
Edukite courses are free to study. To successfully complete a course you must submit all the assignment of the course as part of the assessment. Upon successful completion of a course, you can choose to make your achievement formal by obtaining your Certificate at a cost of £49.
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Course Credit: Universidad Carlos iii de Madrid
Course Curriculum
| Week 1: The Da Vinci Code | |||
| Lecture 1.1: Introduction | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 1.2: Sensazione talent | 00:06:00 | ||
| Lecture 1.3: Dimostrazione talent | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 1.4: Curiositá talent | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 1.5: Sfumato talent | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 1.6: Arte/Scienza talent | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 1.7: Connessione talent | 00:10:00 | ||
| Lecture 1.8: Interview | 00:08:00 | ||
| Week 2: The Digital World Code | |||
| Lecture 2.1: Is software eating the world? | 00:03:00 | ||
| Lecture 2.2: Knowing the values of the digital world | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 2.3: Building organizations with continuous improvement talent | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 2.4: Visual communication | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 2.5: I love my work | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 2.6: High-value team collaboration | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 2.7: Becoming a digital leader | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 2.8: Survival in the digital world | 00:06:00 | ||
| Week 3: Identifying needs | |||
| Lecture 3.1: Do we really need requirements? | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 3.2: Are you sure you know what I want? | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 3.3: You should buy an insurance policy! | 00:11:00 | ||
| Lecture 3.4: What is a requirement? Expressing needs | 00:10:00 | ||
| Lecture 3.5: When to do what with my requirements? | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 3.6: Did you do the right thing right? | 00:10:00 | ||
| Lecture 3.7: Your goal: a specification | 00:10:00 | ||
| Lecture 3.8: Hands on work | 00:13:00 | ||
| Week 4: Do not reinvent the Wheel, no need! | |||
| Lecture 4.1: My precious! | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 4.2: Fight the Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome | 00:05:00 | ||
| Lecture 4.3: Collaborative building | 00:20:00 | ||
| Lecture 4.4: Composable and reusable software | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 4.5: Incentives: Software Integration and Reuse | 00:05:00 | ||
| Lecture 4.6: Disruptive software with/for reuse | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 4.7: Hands on work | 00:07:00 | ||
| Week 5: Portray a Creator in the Age of Software | |||
| Lecture 5.1: Take a look on software design | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 5.2: Components: The pieces of the software puzzle | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 5.3: Draft, refine, divide and conquer | 00:06:00 | ||
| Lecture 5.4 Data is the feed of your digital solution | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 5.5: Integrating smart things | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 5.6: Integrating services from the cloud | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 5.7: Creating the choreography of your puzzle | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 5.8: What is next? | 00:05:00 | ||
| Week 6: Looking for perfection | |||
| Lecture 6.1: Testing? What? | 00:04:00 | ||
| Lecture 6.2: Looking for quality | 00:05:00 | ||
| Lecture 6.3: Components in structure | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 6.4: Components in action | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 6.5: Software as a whole | 00:05:00 | ||
| Lecture 6.6: Trends, Big Data | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 6.7: Looking for perfection | 00:04:00 | ||
| Week 7: From software-centric to human-centric | |||
| Lecture 7.1: Computing is everywhere | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 7.2: From computing-centered to human-centered | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 7.3: What humans can and can’t do | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 7.4: What humans want and don’t want to do | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 7.5: What devices and interfaces are for | 00:06:00 | ||
| Lecture 7.6: How can I design the interaction? | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 7.7: Can you help me? | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 7.8. Interview | 00:09:00 | ||
| Week 8: Creativity and participatory design | |||
| Lecture 8.1: What is creativity? | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 8.2 How do we fuel our imagination? | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 8.3: Design thinking methods | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 8.4: Testing ideas quickly and iteratively | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 8.5: Putting users in the loop | 00:09:00 | ||
| Lecture 8.6: Working together | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lecture 8.7: Closing the loop putting the control into the user hands | 00:07:00 | ||
| Lecture 8.8: Interview | 00:12:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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