1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SQ730 Engineering Sohare
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: combination of lectures and laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignment and a final examination
A subject of the Master of Engineering by coursework.
Objectives
To formulate and design algorithmic solutions to a range of
problems;
To edit, compile, debug, test and run C language programs;
To design a program, using a top down method, given a
functional specification;
To implement the design as a well-structured program, using
the major control structures and functions (with parameter
passing) provided by the C language; to be able to
implement data structures and data types in C, as a method
of type abstraction; to write code that is well commented
and to understand the importance of such documentation;
To obtain input from both keyboard and file, and be able to
send output to both file and screen.
Content
A study of the programming language C and the related
software engineering practice topics include program
specification; algorithmic approach to problem solving;
program design methodology; C basis; simple data types
(int, float, etc.); control of flow; functions; arrays; string
handling with standard libraries; structures; data structures
and user-defined data types; file I/O with the standard
libraries; common algorithms sorting, searching, file
processing.
SQ752 Systems Programming
12.5 credit points over one semestw. 4 hours per week..
Hawthorn *. Prerequisite: nil Instruction: lectures and
laboratory sessions. Assessment: assignments and final
examination
A first year subject in the Master of Engineering (Open
Systems).
0 b jedives
To study the implementation of the UNIXmsystem by a
consideration of a selection of the system calls; to study the
development of network-aware software.
Content
Low level I/O; file system access and manipulation; time
under UNIXTM ; process control; accessing user
information; signals and interrupts; interprocess
communication and networking; remote procedure
calls(RPC) and distributed computing environment @CE)
services; I/O to terminals and device control.
Recommended Reading
Stevens, W.R., Advanced Programming in the UNIP
Environment, Mass, Addison-Wesley. 1992.
Stevens, W.R., UNIP Network ~rogramrnin~, Prentice-Hall,
1990.
SQ754 The Personal Software Process
12.5 credit ~0ints over one semestw. 3 hours ow week..
Hawthorn 0. Prerequisite: nil Instruction: lecture and
laboratory sessions . Assessment: assignments and reports.
A first year subject in theMaster of Engineering (Open
Systems).
0 biectives
To establish the need for discipline in software engineering;
to guide students to discover the methods of software
development which make them personally most effective
(eg, time and defect recording, coding standards, size
measurement, size estimating, task planning, schedule
planning, design reviews, design templates, code reviews); to
provide students with the knowledge base required to
manage their own personal software process and to come to
believe that the methods are of benefit to them.
Content
The course follows closely the "Personal Software Process n
course developed by Watts S. Humphrey, Software
Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
USA. It addresses: the baseline personal process (time/defect
recording, coding standards, size measurement); the
personal planning process (size estimating, task planning,
schedule planning); personal quality management (design
reviews, design templates, code reviews); cyclic personal
process (cyclic process improvement).
Recommended Reading
Humphrey, W.S. A Discipline for Software Engineering, Addison-
Wesley, Reading, Ma, 1995.
SQ757 Local Area Networks
12.5 credit points over one semester 3 hours per week..
Hawthorn 0. Prerequisite: nil.. Instruction: lecture and
laboratory sessions. Assessment: assignments and final
examination.
A first year subject in the Master of Engineering (Open
systems).
0 b jectives
To study the operation of common LAN topologies and
protocols; to study the functionality of LAN components
such as repeaters, bridges and routers; to study some
representative network operating systems.
Content
Data communication networks and open system standards;
;
protocol basics; ethernet, token ring and token bus
networks; high speed and bridged LANs; internetworking;
transport protocols; application specific protocols: DNS,
NIS, NFS; network operating systems: Novell's Netware,
Windows NT; network management: SNMP; security
aspects.
Recommended Reading
Halsall, F., Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open
Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Stevens, R. W., TCP/ZP Illustrated Vol I: The Protocols, Addison-
Wesley, 1994
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