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 ====== Learning outcomes ======
-Students should be able to develop software products to be used by others that are
+Students must be able to develop software products to be used by others that are
   * Correct (relative to a **specification**).
   * Efficient.
-  * Maintainable. (Just as others will find it hard to read a disorganized essay, so others will find it hard to understand a disorganized design, let alone extend it).
+  * Maintainable. (Just as it is hard to read a disorganized essay, so it is hard to understand a disorganized design, let alone extend it).
+The course is work intensive. This is particularly so of the course project (which is handed out prior to reading week, to give students sufficient time to produce a specified software product). A software developer must be able to produce programs that are used by others and maintained (and possibly extended) by other software development teams. Thus the code must have a good design and be properly documented. The main goal of the project is to allow students to develop a software product where they must make a **persuasive case** that
+  *their software product is  **reliable**, i.e. that customers using their software product can rely on the fact that it is correct (performs precisely according to specification) and robust (behaves appropriately to abnormal conditions), and that
+  *their software product is **maintainable** (well-designed).
 ===== Course Description =====