A software engineering subject on system description techniques

The paper describes a software engineering subject on system description techniques (SDT). This course explains the system description techniques (SDTs) for describing both the models that arise from analysis as well as design. It is therefore of immense importance as a prelude to the software engineering project. The students are introduced to a wide number of techniques including data oriented, process oriented, state oriented and object oriented techniques. These techniques describe somewhat different aspects of a software system. There are a number of problems related to teaching, students, lack of suitable books and examples. The paper describes how they are addressed.