Analysis, Design and Software Architecture

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This page contains information on the schedule, material, exam, etc. for the BSc course "Analysis, Design and Software Architecture" at IT University of Copenhagen, fall 2025 (Course description on LearnIT).

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Schedule

Before the first lecture, please read (and install the software from here)

OBS: We expect you to be present during lectures and exercise sessions.

Table 1. Course schedule Note: While times are locked, the topics are subject to change. Note, not all links are active yet. They will be populated continuously.

#	Week	Date	Lecturer	Reading	Topic	Project	Chapter Map
1	35	27.08.2025	Eduard	Material	Course Intro, .NET CLI apps, VCS, Tooling	Project start, initial Chirp! CLI app
		29.08.2025	Eduard
2	36	03.09.2025	Eduard	Material	Team Work with GitHub, Building, Libraries	Refactoring Chirp! CLI app
		05.09.2025	Eduard
3	37	10.09.2025	Eduard	Material	Intro to testing, CI/CD, and first design reflections	Futher refactoring, add testing and CI/CD	35, 36
		12.09.2025	Eduard
4	38	17.09.2025	Sven	Material	Intro to minimal API web apps and deployment to Azure	Refactor CSV DB to Web Service with CLI client, CD to Azure	3, 4, 5
		19.09.2025	Sven
5	39	24.09.2025	Eduard	Material	Intro to Razor web apps, Server-side Rendering, MVC pattern, and SQLite	Reading cheeps with first Chirp! web app Project Review 1 (Friday, see teams)	13, 14, 15
		26.09.2025	Cancelled
6	40	01.10.2025	Eduard	Material	Intro to EF Core with SQLite, LINQ, and Repository pattern	Refactor Chirp! web app to support ORM	8, 9, 10, 11, 12
		03.10.2025	Eduard
7	41	08.10.2025	Martin Stanly Watts (Netcompany, guest lecture)	Material	Architecture and Testing of EF Core Projects Feedback, Deploying to Azure	Add testing with EF Core and SQLite in memory database	8, 9, 10 (12, 35, 36)
		10.10.2025	Eduard
	42	Fall break
8	43	22.10.2025	Sven	Material	Handling Users with ASP.NET Core Identity and OAuth	Add login with GitHub to Chirp! Project Review 2	6, 7, 23
		24.10.2025	Sven
9	44	29.10.2025	Martin von Haller Groenbaek (Bird & Bird, guest lecture)	Material	Forms and UI Testing	Add sending of cheeps, and UI tests	16, 17, 18
		31.10.2025	Sven
10	45	05.11.2025	Sven	Material	Security of web applications Feedback, Git Concepts and Usage	Complete login and sending of cheeps. Check security	28, 29
		07.11.2025	Sven
11	46	12.11.2025	Fioralba Ajazi (ITU, guest lecture: Modern SE in today’s data-driven world. What to know before you touch a line of code)	Material	Requirements and Intro to visual languages for design and architecture	Add (un-)follow feature, fix Chirp! users
		14.11.2025	Sven
12	47	19.11.2025	Jakob Krabbe (Comply Cloud, guest lecture: GDPR and AI Act)	Material	"Privacy by Design" Behavioral Models, Documentation, and Architecture	Add user info page and "forget me" feature to Chirp! Project Review 3
		21.11.2025	Sven
13	48	26.11.2025	Sven	Material	Reflection on design and architecture & wrap-up	Wild style, implement your own features to Chirp!, Refactoring design
		28.11.2025	Sven
14	49	03.12.2025	Sven			Project demo day	Complete projects and write reports
		05.12.2025	Sven

• Exam dates and detaill:

  • Hand-in of project reports: 2/1/26 (latest at 14:00) LearnIT Submission

  • Written exams (on premises): 9/1/26 (9:00 - 11:00)

TA Supervision

TBA

Team

• Teachers: Eduard Kamburjan, Sven Peldszus

• TAs: Marius, Patrick, Phi Va, Jakob, Carl, Jonas

Books

The main book accompanying this course is Andrew Lock ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition

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