Final Project Code:  22.635    :  12
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This is the course plan for the first semester of the academic year 2023/2024. To check whether the course is being run this semester, go to the Virtual Campus section More UOC / The University / Programmes of study section on Campus. Once teaching starts, you'll be able to find it in the classroom. The course plan may be subject to change.
The final project is a mandatory course of the Bachelor’s degree in Techniques for Software Application Development. In this course, students carry out a complete software development project, including planning, requirements gathering, design, implementation, deployment, and testing. 

This course is divided into a set of thematic areas. Each area corresponds to the specific technology or application domain that is the focus of the final project. Students will need to choose the area where they will develop their project prior to enrolment (see more information below). 

The teaching workload for the student will be 12 ECTS, which corresponds to 300 hours. The project lasts for one semester as any other course in the bachelor’s degree. Students that cannot complete the project in this time will need to enrol in it the next semester. 

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This project allows the student to apply the complete set of skills learned in the degree. Hence, this course is intended to be taken at the very end of the degree. Students enrolling the final project should have passed at least 120 ECTS of the degree. 

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The final project is the culmination of all the learning activities in the degree. It allows students to showcase their degree of maturity as software developers and his/ ability to apply both soft and technical skills in complex projects.

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Some areas require some previous background in particular technologies or having passed specific courses (e.g., optional courses). Please refer to the course plan of the area of your interest to find out the specific requirements.

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You can apply for a final project in Procedures \ Final projects \ Application for final projects. Then, you should select the Bachelor’s degree in Techniques for Software Application Development. After doing this, you will find the “Final project” within the list of courses that you can enrol.

Please remember that you should have passed 120 ECTS before enrolling the Final Project. Also, each thematic area may impose additional requirements.

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The final project requires all the competencies used during the bachelor’s degree:
  • Use and apply ICTs in academic and professional spheres.
  • Communicate in a foreign language.
  • Express ideas in writing clearly and correctly, displaying a command of terms and expressions that are specific to the field of software development, for both academic and professional contexts.
  • Adapt to new software development technologies and to future environments, updating professional skills.
  • Identify the features of different types of organizations and the role played in them by ICTs.
  • Evaluate software solutions and draw up proposals for development projects, taking into account the resources, the available alternatives and the market conditions.
  • Understand and use the scientific bases of software development to analyse each problem at the appropriate level of abstraction and apply the skills and knowledge acquired in order to solve them.
  • Identify the structural elements and operational principles of a computer.
  • Understand the fundamentals of operating systems and computer networks so as to design and develop solutions that take into account each platform's specific features, available and shared resources, and the system's security.
  • Design and build computer applications using development, integration and reuse techniques.
  • Apply specific software engineering techniques to the different stages of a project's life cycle.
  • Apply specific data processing, storage and administration techniques.
  • Propose and evaluate different technological alternatives for solving a specific software development problem.
  • Develop cross-platform applications.
  • Design people-centric solutions.
  • Conduct and submit a project in the field of software development and defend it before a panel of experts.

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The content of the final project will depend on the specific thematic area selected by the student. Within a given area, the specific topic of the final project will be decided by the teaching staff with inputs from the student. If you are interested in pursuing a specific project, please contact your tutor to send your proposed topic to the teaching staff before enrolment for their validation.

All final projects are expected to produce the following deliverables:
  • A document describing the goals, planning, execution and results of the project. This document is prepared during the entire semester.
  • A presentation of the project in video format that summarizes the most relevant aspects about the project.
  • In most cases, there will also be a product, such as an application, tool or service developed by the student.

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Each thematic area may provide specific resources related to the technologies and tools used in that particular domain. 

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The assessment process is based on the student's personal work and presupposes authenticity of authorship and originality of the exercises completed.

Lack of authenticity of authorship or originality of assessment tests, copying or plagiarism, the fraudulent attempt to obtain a better academic result, collusion to copy or concealing or abetting copying, use of unauthorized material or devices during assessment, inter alia, are offences that may lead to serious academic or other sanctions.

Firstly, you will fail the course (D/0) if you commit any of these offences when completing activities defined as assessable in the course plan, including the final tests. Offences considered to be misconduct include, among others, the use of unauthorized material or devices during the tests, such as social media or internet search engines, or the copying of text from external sources (internet, class notes, books, articles, other students' essays or tests, etc.) without including the corresponding reference.

And secondly, the UOC's academic regulations state that any misconduct during assessment, in addition to leading to the student failing the course, may also lead to disciplinary procedures and sanctions.

The UOC reserves the right to request that students identify themselves and/or provide evidence of the authorship of their work, throughout the assessment process, and by the means the UOC specifies (synchronous or asynchronous). For this purpose, the UOC may require students to use a microphone, webcam or other devices during the assessment process, and to make sure that they are working correctly.

The checking of students' knowledge to verify authorship of their work will under no circumstances constitute a second assessment.

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You can only pass the course if you participate in and pass the continuous assessment. Your final mark for the course will be the mark you received in the continuous assessment.
 

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