Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Masterat
Domeniul: Informatica
Programul de studii: Programare bazată pe componente - în limba engleză
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MIA1001	Research Project in Component-Based Programming	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Status	
4	0+0+3	speciality	compulsory	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
PÂRV Bazil	Ph.D.	Prof.	Programming  Languages and Methods			*	

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
At the completion of this course, the student should:
- have documentation abilities on an established topic
- be able to design the table of contents of the dissertation
- know how to write a technical document (dissertation) in many iterations	

IV. Course contents
The research project activity represents the individual work the student performs with the purpose to realize a scientific report on a given topic.
The steps to be covered are the following:
1. Establishing the research title/topic - due week 3
2. Bibliographical documentation - due week 6
3. Table of contents: version 1.0 - due week 7
4. Relevance of the bibliographical sources and their assignment to the designed structure - due week 9
5. Translation of selected documents and writing the paper - due week 14		

V. Bibliography
Internet resources on software projects and on the particular topics of the projects	

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks
The activities schedule follows closely the steps required for the work and their due dates.	

VII. Didactic methods used
The class is based on the following methods: exposure, conversation, didactical proof, modeling, and the discussion of some case studies and programming examples. The work consists of individual assignments. 
Each student must prepare a research paper on an established topic, and a software project.		

VIII. Assessment
Each of the activities above has a due date and a corresponding mark, on a 10-point scale. A penalty of 1pt per week are considered for delays. The weights are as follows:
1. title (10%)
2. documentation (20%)
3. contents v1.0 (10%)
4. assigning sources to structure (20%)
5. final version of the paper (40%)
The final grade is computed as a weighted average of the marks for individual activities.	

IX. Additional references
Internet resources on software projects and on the particular topics of the projects	

	Dean,							Chair head,
	Prof. ȚÂMBULEA Leon, Ph.D.			Prof. PÂRV Bazil, Ph.D.

	Date,							Course responsible,
	October 1, 2010					Prof. PÂRV Bazil, Ph.D.