1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

BT564 Business Programming 2A
12.5 credit points Duration: 3.5 hours per week over I
semester Prerequisities: BT55O Introduction to Information
Systems, BT551 Business Programming 1 Instruction:
lecture/tutorial/laboratory Assessment: examination (60%)
assignments (20%) and test (20%)
Aims
To give students a sound understanding of the principles and
practice of procedural programming.
To produce students worthy of immediate hire as trainee
programmers in a commercial environment.
Content
programming process, from problem definition through
to program testing;
principles of structured programming
importance and philosophy of testing, and designing a
testing strategy for a given program specification;
designing a logical structured solution to a problem
using structure charts and pseudocode;
reading, understanding, modifying and debugging
COBOL programs;
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how to design, write, test and document attractive, wellstructured
programs in COBOL involving - sequential
files, indexed files, reports, control breaks, data
validation, character string manipulation, tables,
arithmetic, multiple sequential files
Textbooks
Stern, N., Stern, R. and Janossy, J. Structure Cobol Programming,
7th ed., Wiley, 1994.
Stern, N., Stern, R. and Janossy, J. Getting Started With RM/
Cobol-85, Wiley, 1994
Cobol course notes.
References
Grauer, R. Structured Cobol Programming, USA, Wiley,1994
Juliff, P. Program Design, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 1990
BT565 Business Programming 2B
12.5 credit points Duration: 3.5 hours per week over 1
semester Prerequisities: BT55O Introduction to Information
Systems, BT55l Business Programming 1 Instruction:
lecture/tutorial/laborato~Assessment: examination (5O%),
assignments (30%) and test (20%)
Aims
This subject builds upon the programming skills and
concepts learned in Business Programming 1.
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" The objective is to give students an understanding of sound
5 software engineering principles through programming in a
block structured language (currently C). The emphasis is on
developing and maintaining information systems
applications using modular techniques.
Content
Topics covered include the following:
program structure
data structure
algorithm design
data validation
arrays and tables
sequential files
reporting
indexed files
strings
testing
Textbook
Lafore, Robert, Microsoft C Programming for the PC, Sama
Publishing, 1993.
References
House, Beginning wWth C: An Introduction to Professional
Programming, Nelson, 1994.
Johnsonbaugh and Kalin, Applications Programming in ANSI C,
MacMillan, 1994.
Kelley and Pohl, C by Dissection: The Essential of CProgramming,
Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co., 1993.
BT570 System Architecture 1
12.5 credit points Duration: 3. 5 hours per week over 1
semester Prerequisites: BT561 Data Analysis & Design,
BT55l Business Programming I Instruction: lecture/
tutorial Assessment: examination (70%) assignments (30%)
Aims
Given a problem relating to a computer system, the student
will be able to communicate with an expert to effect a
solution.
Content
concepts of basic computer hardware and their
functions during operation
an understanding of software architecture of a
computer, the capabilities of the operating system and
its dependence on hardware
basic concepts and components involved in data
communications
the goals and structure of the IS0 reference model for
computer network protocols
the data communication services and facilities orovided
by the common carriers
Benefits of data communications for an organisation and
the management of this function.
Textbook
Stamper, D.A. Business Data Communications, Benjamin/
Cummings Publishing Company Inc, 4th ed. 1994
References
Burd, S.D. Systems Architecture - Hardware and Software in
Business Information Systems, Boyd and Fraser Publishing
Company, 1994
Curle, Keith, Data Communications in Australia, John Wiley &
Sons, 1st Edition, 1996.
Halsall, F. Data Communications, Computer Networks and OSI,
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 2nd ed., 1990
Housley, T. Data Communications and Teleprocessing Systems,
Prentice-Hall, 1989
Ramon, E. and Schroeder, A. Contemporary Data
Communications -A Practical Approach, Maxwell-Macmillan, 1994
Stallings, W. Business Data Communications, Maxwell Macmillan
International Editions, New York, 1992