1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SQ619 Expert Systems
10 credit points m3 hours per week Hawtborn
fierequisite SQ419 l Instmctwn: a combination of kture
and tutod sessions l Assessment: project and examination
This is a subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
Objective and Content
The subject covers the techniques and issues of knowledge,
acquisition and building expert systems.
SQ623 Industry Based Learning
50 credit points
A six-month period of industry based learning occurring as
part of the third year of the course leading to the degree of
Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Science and
Software Engineering). Students are supervised by a member
of the academic staff and are required to submit a report to
their employer and to their supervisor. This program is
normally taken at the end of SQ523.
SQ628 Windows Programming
10 credit points l 3 hours per wek l Hawthorn l Prwequisite:
SQ310 or SQ300 l Assessment: assignments and examination
An elective subject in Bachelor of Applied Science and the
Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours in Computer
Science).
0 bjectives
To provide students with a good understanding of Microsoft
Windows visual development environments, event driven
and component based programming and the benefits of
using an object oriented language to build Windows
programs.
Content
Specific topics include GUIs, Windows executables, visual
development environments, object oriented application
framewords, Delphi, databases, graphics and printing,
debugging, DDE and OLE, Dynamic Link Libraries.
SQ700 Programming in C
12.5 credit points i 4 hours per week l Hawthorn
l Instruction: combination of lectures and laboratory sessions
l Assessment: assignment and a final examination
This is a subject of the Graduate Diploma of Applied
Science (Computer Science).
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 ;o 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.
SQ702 Systems Programming
12.5 credit points l 4 hours per week l Hawthorn
l Prerequisities: SQ700 or equivalent approved C competence
Instruction: combination of lectures and laboratory sessions
l Assessment: m'gnments and a examination
This is a subject of the Graduate Diploma of Applied
Science (Computer Science).
Objectives
To introduce students to the UNIX operating system;
To teach the use of shell scripts as a method of prototyping
system software;
Via system calls, to examine systems programming in a
UNIX environment.
Content
Introduction to UNIX operating systems; UNIX file
management; commands and filters; electronic mail;
structure of thee operating system; tools make, SCCS, lint
and sdb; shell programming (differences between Bourne
and C shell); systems programming (low level I/O, accessing
the file system, creating and controlling processes,
communication between processes, device control
networks); system administration.
SQ703 Software Development Proiect
12.5 credit points per semester (25 credit points in total)
l Tm hours &tum)per m k in semester one and two hours
bject supervision)per m k for two semesters Hawtborn
l Instruction: combination of lectures, project supervision and
software project development practice Assessmr by
deliwables, e.g. project plan, requirements definition and design
document, as wll as the actual software. An individual
assignment may also be required
This is a subject of the Graduate Diploma of Applied
Science (Computer Science).
0 b jectives
By the end of the subject, the student should have detailed
knowledge of project management theory, and be able to
apply that theory to the management of software
development projects; have knowledge and experience in
three to five person group projects, which, although
technically of only moderate complexity, requires students
to exercise significant project management skills.
Content
Software development life cycle; project planning,
estimation and control; project communication; project
progress measurement and evaluation; politics of projects;
project and product risk analysis; codbenefit analysis;