1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

specification, design specification, source code, and user
manual; deliverables shall be prepared in accordance with
the software documentation standards; the final product
shall be presented to the client for evaluation and
acceptance.
Recommended Reading
Boehm, B.W.,Software Risk Management, IEEE Computer Society
Press, Washington, 1989.
Fenton, N.E., Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, Chapman
& Hall, London, 1991.
ES406 Graphical User Interface Development
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: ES200, ES306 Instruction: lectures and
laboratory sessions Assessment: assignments and final
examination
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
and the Bachelor of Software Engineering.
0 biectives
To explore the methods and tools of graphical user interface
development; to familiarise students with the principles,
practices and techniques of the event based programming
paradigm, with particular application to Graphical User
Interfaces (GUIs).
Content
The rapid prototyping paradigm; tools and techniques for
rapid prototyping; managing the prototyping process; the
role of developers and users in prototyping; design
principles for rapid prototyping; event based programming
principles tools and techniques; a brief introduction to
graphic user interface elements; concept of event driven
programming and types of events; introduction to a modern
rapid prototyping user interface development environment,
preferably using C + + ; GUI programming in C + + ; use of
and programming of dynamic link libraries (DLLs); use of
high level class libraries for user interface programming; use
of application programming interfaces for low-level calls;
user interface issues, choice of colours, design, etc.
Recomended Reading
Newrnan, W., & Laming, M., Interactive System Design, Addison-
Wesley, New York, 1995.
Petzold, C., Programming Windowss"3.1, 3rd ed., Microsoft
Press, 1992.
ES407 Data Communications
.
10 credit points l .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn @.
Prerequisite: ES10O.e Instruction: lectures and laboratory
sessions Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
and the Bachelor of Software Engineering.
Obiectives
To introduce the fundamental concepts and components
involved in data communications; to develop an
understanding of communication protocols and computer
networks.
Content
Historical evolution of computer communications,
standards, codes, introduction to the IS0 reference model;
basic communication theories and techno1ogies:transmission -
media, signal types, interface standards; protocol basics:
error control methods, flow control, link management;
terminal based networks: statistical multiplexers,
concentrators, front-end processors and terminal network
protocols; local area networks: topologies and access
methods, LAN management; public data networks, ISDN,
standards, wide area networks; OSI: the seven layer model,
layer interaction, comparison of architectures; message
handling systems: standards, examples.
Recommended Reading
Halsall, F., Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open
Systems, 4th Edition,
.
Addison Wesley,1995.
ES409 Introduction
.
to Artificial Intelligence
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: ES1OO.e Instruction: lectures, tutorials and
laboratory sessions. Assessment: assignments and final
examination.
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
and a third year subject in the Bachelor of Software
0 b jectives
To give students an appreciation of the difficulties involved
in encoding knowledge, even in restricted domains, in such a
fashion that 'intelligent behaviour' can be elicited; to
contrast the symbol-based and non-symbol-based
paradigms.
Content
Problem solving and search; symbolic knowledge
representation; artificial neural networks; evolutionary
programming; machine learning; natural language
processing; machine vision.
Recommended Reading
Russell, S. & Norvig,P., Artificial Intelligence: A Modern
Approach, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1995.
Winston, P.H. , Artificial Intelligence (3rd ed.), Addison-Wesley,
Reading, Mass.,
.
1992.
ES500 Compiler Design
10 credit points 3 hours per week.. Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: ES300.e Instruction: lectures and tutorials.
Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science and the Bachelor of Software Engineering.
Objectives
To introduce formal language theory; to investigate the
major methods of compiler design; to develop a new
language and its compiler.
Content
Introduction to compiler theory and practice; introduction
to formal language theory, grammars, finite state machines
and regular expressions; lexical analysis; top- down parsing;
non - deterministic push-down automata; recursive -descent
parsing; conditions for predictive parsing; left recursion;
implementation of non-recursive predictive parser; LL(1)
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