Goals and Learning Objectives
Goals
- Integrate knowledge and skills acquired in other courses.
- Learn new material with attention to the learning process.
- Develop the ability to independently explore a topic by discovering, reading, and critiquing prior work.
- Improve our communication skills, with particular emphasis on written communication and, further,
well-written programs.
- Practice the appropriate and ethical use of existing material of different kinds, such as source code,
services, and documentation.
- Learn how to manage a self-directed project.
Learning Objectives
Students should be able to
- Develop effective learning strategies for continuing acquisition of knowledge and skills.
- Make effective use of the research literature.
- Understand and follow formal and informal standards of the field.
- Present their work in a public forum to their peers and others.