"You have provided me with a new set of tools and taught me how to use them" : embedding generic skills within the IT curriculum

The field of information technology (IT) undergoes incessant change, and the skills of the student to continue to lifelong learn in the context of change, are tested - even during a 3-year undergraduate course. This paper attempts to provide IT - specific applications of generic attributes using a working example to show how they can be embedded within a unit.