1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Objectives
To introduce students to selected technologies which are
deemed to be of emerging significance.
Content -~ ~
A detailed treatment of selected technologies determined on
a year-to-year basis, as a result of consultation with sponsor
organisations.
Recommended Reading
To be advised
IT804 Computing and the Human Context
20 credit points 6 contact hoursfor 6 weeks or equivalent.
(Note The subject may be delivered in intensive seminar style)
Hawthorn Prerequisite: satirfacto~ completion of
segments one to seven. Assessment: Examination/
Assignment.
A Bachelor of Information Technology subject studied at
the end of 3rd year, in Summer Semester.
Objectives
To guide students to analyse the effects of computers in
society.
To formulate and justify opinions on pertinent social,
legal and ethical issues.
Content
A selection from
Social implications of computer applications in an
information society
Impacts of information technology on workplace and
organisations
Human issues effects of standardisation
The nature of values, leisure and technology
Social issues within the computer industry
Professionalism, codes of conduct, codes of practice
The copyrights of software and hardware
Surveys about computers, technological change and
forecasting
Privacy and security issues
Computer crimes and fraud
Societal issues and perspectives
Information systems in economic development
Goals in computer usage, motivating forces, computers
in developing countries
Computers and the arts
Mind and machines
User liaison strategies
Recommended Reading
Langford, D. Practical Computer Ethics, McGraw Hill, 1995
IT90 1 Software Process 1
12.5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: Nil Assessment: tests, assignments and a final
examination
A subject in the Master of Information Technology.
0 biedives
To review the software engineering lifecycle.
To study the personal software engineering skills needed
by the software professional who is to participate in the
analysis, design and implementation of large scale
software.
Content
Part 1: Software lifecycle models; Software process
models; Overview of the software lifecycle (planning;
specification; design; implementation; testing;
maintenance).
Part 2: Detailed study of the personal software
process (Scripts and Logs; Planning; Design; Code;
Compile; Test; Postmortem; Plan Summary;
Measurement of the Software Process;
Defining your Personal Software Process).
Recommended Reading
Pfleeger, S.L., Software Engineering - fie Production of Quality
Software, Maxwell MacMillan International Editions
Pressman, R.S. Software Enginea'ng - A Practitioner's Approach,
McGraw Hill
Sommewille, I. Software Engineering. Addison Wesley.
Humphrey, W.S. A Disciplinefor Software Enginea'ng, Addison
Wesley
IT903 Software Engineering Project
50 credit points No formal classes: regular meetings with
project supmisor will be arranged Prerequisites: IT903 is
only available to students who have completed the Sofware
Enginem'ng cluster in the Master of Information Technology
Instruction: workshop and laboratory sessions, together
with team and individual consultation with staffas required
Assessment by deliverable items appropriate for the complete
documentation of a software development project, and by
verbal presentation
A project in the Master of Information Technology degree.
The aim is to provide an opportunity for students to
develop, in a team, a significantly complex software system,
using appropriate object-oriented methodologies. The
development will encompass the whole software
development process, and will be conducted using a process
conforming with the SEI Capability Maturity Model, Level 2.
Content
The system will be developed by a team of students,
following a software process model appropriate for an
object-oriented development methodology. Students will
consider all management and technical issues associated with
such a development, and will use a state-of-the-art software
development environment to develop a system.
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