Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

~ ~ 9 0 8 Honours Computer Graphics
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures and tutorial
sessions
Assessment: assignments and examination
Subject aims
To familiarise the student with advanced computer graphics
principles.
Subject description
Advanced 3-D graphics rendering; projections; colour; theory;
lighting models; ray-tracing; radiosity; data representation;
animation.
Textbooks
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5~909 Foundations of Intelligent Systems
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures, tutorials
and laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignments and a final examination
Subject aims
To investigate knowledge and its representation within a
computer.
Subject description
Selected topics from: knowledge and scepticism, intention and
belief, behaviourism, scientific explanation, causality, the
mind-body problem; logic - propositional logic, predicate
logic, fuzzy logic, multi-valued logic, temporal logic,
epistemic logic, procedural reasoning systems;
implementation and interface issues - search and control;
knowledge representatation schemes, vision, natural
language processing, learning, neural computing,
connectionism and the mind.
Textbooks
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~ ~ 9 1 3 Honours Research Project
50 credit points
No. of hours per week: eight hours for two
semesters
Instruction: individual consultation with a
supervisor, as required
Assessment: by thesis
Subject aims
To introduce the student to academic research.
Subject description
An individual research project is found for each student. This
project should balance the need to research previous work in
the field with some level of practical work.
59916 Programming the User Interface
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures, seminars
and laboratory sessions
Assessment: two assignments and a final
examination
Subject aims
To introduce the concepts and techniques relevant to
programming the user interface.
Subject description
Concepts - independence (application, device, user);
programming - menus, command-based systems, data
input, giving information back to the user, screen techniques,
using colour, direct manipulation systems and environments,
event based programming, Windows and UIMS, help
systems, handling and avoiding errors; tools - UNlX PC and
Macintosh platforms, function libraries, special purpose
programming languages, interactive editors, application
specific user interface programming languages, user interface
management systems.
Textbooks
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References
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54924 Object-Oriented Design and
Programming
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours in semester
two
Instruction: lecture and workshop
Assessment: assignment and examination
Subject aims
The aim is to provide a comprehensive coverage of objectorientated
systems design methods, and of techniques for
object-orientated programming. In addition, software
engineering principles supported by contemporary objectoriented
programming language will be explored.
Subject description
Methodologies for object-oriented design; design component
of object modelling technique; responsibility driven design;
mechanisms for object-oriented programming; inheritance
(single and multiple), dynamic binding, typing issues,
programming with generics/templates, exception handling,
assertions; programming environments for object-oriented
development; object-oriented programming language
comparisons: Smalltalk, Eiffel, C + +.
Textbooks
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