CSC 423 System Analysis and Design

A study of the systems development life cycle with emphasis on the principles of structured analysis, focusing on both traditional system design and the object-oriented approach. Topics include preparing the Systems proposal, project management, feasibility studies, entity-relationship diagrams, data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, use-case process descriptions, designing user interfaces, prototyping and quality assurance. Students will also design and implement various representative case studies using the platform of their choice. Both the traditional approach (Data Flow Diagrams) and the object oriented approach (UML Unified Modeling Language) will be explored. Prototyping will be emphasized. Prerequisites: CSC 302, CSC 321.