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Topic Title: Introduction to Information Systems Topic Summary: Created On: 27-Sep-2005 14:10 Status: Read Only |
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Introduction to Information Systems
Instructor: Patrick Bailey Email: [email]pmb4@calvin.edu[/email] Calvin College Overview of Course: This course explores Information Systems as a cross discipline field. In essence, it is a study of how information is managed to ensure availability and access to people or processes where it is needed. As a discipline, it is part computer science and part business. An IS professional has a commitment to understanding technology, its value to an organization and how to deliver that value as part of a team. The expectation of each student will be as follows: [INDENT]· Master basic concepts of software through hands-on programming. · Understand the components of an Information System?s architecture. · Articulate the impact of technology to the business environment. · Identify the choices available in planning. · Through Christian based principles, lead and facilitate others in decision making processes. · Fully participate as a team member in delivering a solution.[/INDENT] Further, this class is intended to prepare Information System (IS) majors for the remaining portions of the curriculum with particular emphasis on the fundamentals of managing data resources with desktop databases and spreadsheets, and programming with a visual development environment. The technologies used in the course include Microsoft Access, Excel, Visual Basic.Net and Visual Studio. We will also use open source tools. Prerequisites: IS 141 and IS 171 or permission of the instructor. Text Books: Management Information Systems 9th Edition, Mcleod and Schell Microsoft Visual Basic .Net: Reloaded, Zak Evaluation: The table below outlines specific areas of evaluation and their associated points. [list] [*]Leadership Assignment 50 [*]Programming Assignments 100 [*]Quizzes & Misc Assignments 100 [*]Team Work Evaluation 50 [*]Group Project/Presentation 100 [*]Mid Term 100 [*]Final 100 Total Points 600 [/list] Grades: Grades are assigned based on the percentage of available points in the course as follows: 93%=A; 83%=B; 70%=C; 55%=D. The award of plus or minus is up to the instructor?s discretion and is not always based on points. Consideration includes observed attendance and willingness to participate in class discussions. Further, the awarding of plus or minus is intended as a reward for observed effort and will never be used to lower a grade (i.e. applying a minus to a grade that makes a cutoff for the full letter grade.) Explanation of Evaluation Areas: Leadership Assignment: Each of you will be assigned a leadership position at one time or another in the class. This is a highly subjective grade, and it will be based on a criteria developed by all members of the class. Weekly Programming Assignments: These will generally be simple exercises for you to complete. Evaluation is based on your demonstrating the code to the instructor and explaining how it works. You are strongly encouraged to work with a partner to complete and discuss the assignment. You must have the code ready to be evaluated by me at the start of the Lab period on the due date scheduled. You may schedule time prior to that lab for me to evaluate your code, but absolutely no credit will be given for a missed due date unless approved by the instructor. Approval will not be granted due to time conflicts of the lab hour since you can demo the code prior to the date and ample time is available to complete these exercises. In other words, please manage your time to be early ? not late. Quizzes/Misc Assignments: Quizzes are low risk checkpoints designed to reinforce concepts discussed during a week and to prepare you for the mid-term and final exam as well. Quizzes are unannounced, but typically will be on a Monday and cover the reading materiel that is assigned for that week. Sometimes, in lieu of a quiz, a small research assignment will be given during the week. Team Work Evaluation: An important quality to an IS professional is the ability to work on a team. Again, all of us will discuss the criteria of what makes a good team player. At the end of each group project (sometimes these are only assignments), your fellow team members will fill out an evaluation on your contribution to an effort. Group Project / Presentation: The class will be divided into four groups. Each group will research an assigned topic. The research will include developing a process supported by a spread sheet, database application or other software tool the team develops which can be applied to evaluate an organizatio5cn. Finally, the team will be required to provide a presentation that will include discussion of the topic?s background, issues in the industry, and an overview of the process and tool they developed. The class will negotiate which members are assigned to teams. The four topics available for research are Ethics, Quality, Security and Risk Management. Twenty percent of your grade will be based on a class evaluation of the presentation. Exams: The mid-term and final exams will generally address topics on information systems theory. Topic Introductions ?The Wisdom of Teams? Chapter 1 and 2 (IS Mcleod)Film ? (Made To Order: Dell and FedEx) IS Overview/History/ Business ValueA Christian Case for Pair Programming Start of five intensive weeks of programming. More on variablesMaking Decisions(Ch 3 & 4, Zak) Repeating Instructions (Ch 5 Zak) Strings, Sub Procedures and Functions(ch. 6 and 7 Zak) Arrays (ch. 9 Zak) Structures and Classes (ch 10 and 11 Zak) Modeling classes with Rhapsody by I-Logix Mid Term ? Friday Electronic Commerce (Ch 3, McLeod) FilmIntroduction to XMLOrganizational and Faith Considerations in Computing (Ch 4, McLeod) Architecture and Databases (McLeod, Ch 5, 6) UML systems diagramming using Rhapsody by I-Logix Leadership and Team facilitation techniques Software development (McCleod, Ch 7) Using UML to communicate Christian considerations in processes Implementation and Decision Support (McCleod, Ch 8 and 11) Viability of open source in systems. Guest Speaker or Film Software Testing General system topics Creativity in the environment Group research presentations:Ethics /SecurityRisk Management / Quality Final Exam |
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