How shall I conclude my bachelor?
In the third year of a bachelor’s degree, a student can choose whether to specialize in IT or in telecommunications. The IT orientation in turn provides for a further bifurcation, between a path designed for those who, having completed the bachelor’s degree, continue on to the master’s degree and a path designed for students who, at the end of the bachelor’s degree, enter the job market. The latter differs from the former because it replaces 10 CFU of examinations with an internship.
How does a bachelor's degree end?
The degree concludes with a “final exam” that entails some project activities, not a thesis, framed within multiple courses. It is an articulated work consisting of three parts, beginning in the second year and concluding in the third. The first part is worth one credit and is embedded in the course of “Algorithms and Principles of Computer Science,” where students must develop an algorithm (a program) of some complexity that is then evaluated. In the third year there are two more parts, divided as follows: a one-credit part, consisting in a small project in “Logical Networks” (thus closer to the area of computer hardware), and a more challenging part, a 3-credit project associated with “Software Engineering.” The final total is 5 credits.
What does the final, three-credit part consist of?
This part, which is the main one among those that make up the final exam, is associated with the “Software Engineering” course but actually tries to encapsulate all the skills acquired throughout the entire course of study. Typically, it is the development of a board game (by a real company) rendered in a client/server network, where players can play from their home connected to a server, which keeps the state of the game. The work then includes a design and programming part, a communication part (thus the telecommunications part) and finally a graphical user interface component. The project is worked on in groups of three to five people, in the lab, supported by tutors and teachers.
How is the final graduation score calculated?
The final graduation score is given by the average of the subjects of the 180 credits plus up to a maximum of six points awarded based on the grades of the three parts of the final exam, in proportion to their CFUs. Accordingly, the three-credit part is the most influential.
“The marks of the three parts of the final exam influence up to a maximum of six points on the final graduation”