1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SQ601 Translator Engineering
10 credit points three hours per &k ~a&o?n
Prerequisite SQ310 or SQ300 Instruction: combination of
lectures and tutonil sessions Assessment: assignmat and
examination
This is a third year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science.
Objective and Content
Translator engineering an introduction to translation
introduction to formal language theory, finite automata,
lexical analysis, and the parsing problem. Students design a
compiler for a simple language.
SQ604 Object Oriented Programming
10 credit points 3 hours per weah Hawthorn
Prerequisite SQ310 or SQ300 and SQ314 or SQ404
Instruction lectures, tutorials and hboratory sessions, studying
software engineenenng pn'nciples and goals using object oriented
techniques Assessment assignments and examination
This is a subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
0 bjective
To introduce students to the C+ + programming language.
Content
Object oriented software construction object oriented
methodologies for programming, systems analysis and
systems design are investigated. In-depth examination is
made to illustrate the benefits of object oriented methods as
applied to modern complex software engineering tasks.
SQ605 Multimedia Systems
10 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite SQ300 or 310 and SQ314 or SQ404
Instruction: lectures and laboratory sessions
Assessmat assignments and examination
This is a final year elective in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Computer Science & Software Engineering).
Objective
By the end of the unit students should be able to define
multimedia and its areas of application; appreciate the media
types and their storage formats; describe a range of
multimedia development tolls; describe a range of
multimedia development tools; describe the hardware
components of multimedia systems; use appropriate design
and development methodologies.
Content
Multi-media systems: introduction to multimedia,
multimedia application areas of business, education and
entertainment.
Media types: text, graphics, sound, animation, video; media
formats and standards.
Development tools: categories of application development
programs; presentation packages, hypermedia programs,
multimedia databases, authoring languages, authoring tools.
Windows and Apple platforms.
Multimedia Hardware: components of a multimedia system
and specialised peripheral devices; CD-ROMs, scanners,
video and sound cards.
Distributing Multimedia: CD-ROM, file compression,
multimedia LANs, internet multimedia, videodiscs.
Multimedia Design and Development: design paradigms,
navigation metaphors, storyboarding, project management,
copyright issues.
SQ606 Computing in the Human Context
10 credit points 3 hoursper week Hawthorn
Instruction: combination of lecture and tutorial sessions
Assessment: essay and examination
Within the Bachelor of Applied Science, this is a fourth year
subject in the Computer Science and Software Engineering
course and a third year subject in the Computer Science
(conversion) course and a final year elective for the
Computing and Instrumentation course.
Objectives
To provide students with a framework for the development
of personal and corporate ethics appropriate for the
information technology professional, and to allow students
to explore the uses in and implications for society of
contemporary developments in computing.
Content
Ethical and legal issues in computing, and their relationship
to the computing profession; a selection of other topics,
exemplified by: philosophy and artificial intelligence;
computers and the arts; futures.
Textbooks
To be advised
SQ613 Computer Science Team Proiect
10 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: SQ310 or SQ314 and SQ30fi Instruction:
kctures and practical work
Assessment: assignmats
This is a subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Computing and Instrumentation) and (Mathematics and
Computer Science).
Objective and Content
In this subject, students will apply the software engineering
skills acquired throughout the degree, to a substantial group
software development project. Student groups will choose
from a range of projects and they will then have to analyse
the project's requirements, design and then develop the
system to the best of their ability in the time available.
Subject to the approval of the lecturer, students may
generate their own project.
SQ618 Computer Graphics
10 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite SQ310 or SQ3OO Instruction: combination of
lectures and tutonal sessions Assessment: assignment and
examination
This is a subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science.
Content
Computer graphics hardware for computer graphics; basic 2-
D and 3-D graphics drawing; transformations; data
structures for graphics; windowing and clipping, ray-tracing.