COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OPEN SOURCE AND FREE SOFTWARE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YBS 4023 OPEN SOURCE AND FREE SOFTWARE ELECTIVE 2 2 0 4

Offered By

Management Information Systems

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KUTAN KORUYAN

Offered to

Management Information Systems

Course Objective

Inform about philosophy of open source and Information systems benefiting from open-source,and software projects.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Defining the philosophy of open-source
2   information about free software licenses
3   Having experience about components and steps when developing free software
4   Support enterprise problems with open source projectsand make suggestion

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Open Source and Free Software
2 Proprietary Software
3 History of Open Source and Free Software
4 Open Source and Free Software Philosophy
5 Open Source and Free Software Licences
6 Comparison of Open Source and Free Software and Proprietary Software
7 Open Source and Free Software and Operating Systems
8 Open Source and Free Software in Türkiye and the World
9 Virtual Linux Operating System Setup
10 Linux Operating System
11 Linux Terminal Commands
12 Linux Terminal Commands
13 Linux Terminal Commands
14 Linux Terminal Commands

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Textbook:Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing,Andrew M. St.Laurent,O Reilly Media,2004
Subsidiary Textbooks:Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software,Joseph Feller,Brian Fitzgerald,Scott A. Hissam and Karim R.Lakhani,The MIT Press,2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities are given in detail in the Evaluation Methods and Workload Calculation section.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE STT * 0.50 +MTE * 0.50
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The rules applied by the faculty are valid.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

www.ybs.deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Tutorials 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.15555
LO.25555
LO.35555
LO.4555555