The Software Design & Analysis 2023 course at FAST-NUCES Lahore is aimed at equipping students with essential principles and techniques for designing and analyzing complex software systems. This course covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of software design, ensuring that students learn the skills needed to create efficient, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
- Object-Oriented Design: Students explore principles like encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism to design modular and reusable software components.
- Design Patterns: The course covers widely-used design patterns such as Singleton, Observer, Factory, and Strategy, enabling students to solve common software design problems efficiently.
- Software Architecture: Focuses on high-level architectural patterns and frameworks that are essential for designing large-scale systems.
- UML Diagrams: Students learn to model software using UML diagrams (class, sequence, and use case diagrams) to visualize and communicate system architecture and behavior.
- Agile Methodologies: Practical knowledge of agile practices, including SCRUM and iterative development, is taught to manage software projects effectively.
- Code Quality & Refactoring: Emphasizes writing clean, maintainable code and introduces students to refactoring techniques to improve existing codebases.
Students are required to work on real-world projects, applying their software design knowledge in teams. They design, implement, and analyze software systems to solve specific problems, gaining hands-on experience with modern tools and technologies.
This course prepares students to tackle complex software design challenges and lays a strong foundation for careers in software engineering.