The “Applications Informatiques » course is a compulsory second-year course in the Bachelor of Computer Science program, open only to students of the department. The general objective of this course is to train students in the development of computer applications at the request of various AV短视频 entities. During the course, students will identify the customer's needs, interact with him or her, design a solution, develop and test a program and finally deliver the result.
At the start of the autumn semester, a call for projects is issued to the entire university community, who can then submit a project as long as it contains programming elements, is instructive and corresponds to 80h-100h of work per student. The teacher receives and filters the proposed projects according to their level of difficulty and feasibility by 2nd year students who are not yet programming experts. For each project, the teacher calls on his or her colleagues to identify a volunteer inker who can monitor and provide expertise to the students during the project.
In the first class, the teacher gives a short theoretical introduction to good practice in IT projects, before letting the students choose a project from the available project descriptions. The choice is made on Moodle, which also enables groups to be formed according to the number of students required per project. They must then provide a service to the entity initiating the project, in the form of a computer application that may be administrative or scientific in nature. A set of specifications is drawn up between the person requesting the service, the student and the departmental supervisor.
From the second class onwards, the teacher ensures that the students have contacted the supervisor assigned to their project and that a first meeting with the client has been arranged. The supervisor is present at this first meeting to provide a framework for the project, to ensure that the project is feasible, that the customer's requirements have been understood by the students, and to answer any questions the students may not know how to answer. Thereafter, the students work independently on the project, but the supervisor continues to monitor their work at regular meetings.
In the middle of the semester, the teacher devotes two 45-minute classes to the presentation of each group's project. The presentation lasts 10 minutes, followed by a period of feedback from the teacher.
The final report consists of a written template (requirements, development, organization, training and feedback), the minutes of each meeting with the customer and the documentation provided to the customer. All the code produced during the semester, as well as the session reports, are recorded on Gitlab. The evaluation is based on feedback from the customer (meetings, identification of needs, involvement) and the supervisor. Customer and supervisor receive an evaluation questionnaire to be completed at the end of the semester. This questionnaire covers the quality of product development, usability by the client, documentation provided to the client and working interactions throughout the development process.
