The Software Engineering Workshop is a series of courses that span the first three years of the Software Engineering program. The course series will provide an opportunity to work in small teams on substantial, realistic projects, covering most phases of the software production life cycle. The SE Workshop stream also provides an opportunity to apply the techniques and methods covered in other courses of the course. Under guidance from staff, the intention of this series is to enable students to learn by reflective practice. Whatever steps are taken students should become aware of what they are doing, and reflect on the consequences. This is the essence of the Personal Software Process described in the textbook by Watts Humphrey. Each course in the series will involve group project work, presentations, report writing, and documentation. This is the first course in the series and will contain: an introduction to the software process and to a number of the software engineering practices to be adopted throughout the series; the formation of the first set of small groups; a number of exercises to develop group skills; a discussion of the project to be undertaken in SENG1020. The groups formed during this course will not persist for the entire series of courses. Groups will be reformed arbitrarily at various stages.

Assumed Knowledge: HSC minimum mark required: 2 unit Contempory English (60-100), or 2 unit General English (60-100) or 2 unit English (1-50) .