1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

ES518 Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
10 credit points .3 hours per weeke* Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: ES2OO.* Instruction: lecture and tutorial.
Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Software
Engineering and the Bachelor of Applied Science.
Objectives
To introduce computer graphics principles; to introduce
concepts of virtual reality.
Content
What is computer graphics; graphics hardware; point, line,
circle and polygon drawing; 2D transformations;
windowing and clipping; data structures for computer
graphics; 3D transformations; 3D viewing and
representations; colour in computer graphics; object
rendering;tracing; virtual reality.
Recommended Reading
Hearn, D & Baker, M., Computer Graphics, Prentice-Hall,
1986.
ES524 Professional Issues in Software
Engineering
10 credit points 3 hours per week.* Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: nil.* Instruction: lecture and tutorial, workshop
Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Software Engineering
and the Bachelor of Applied Science.
Ob jedives
To introduce and review of the Code of Ethics and Code of
Conduct governing the behaviour of software engineering
professionals; to provide a broad understanding of the
im~act of information technology -. on various human
acthities; to explore the importance of knowing one's belief
system and values when reasoning confronting issues at the
. .
work place.
Content
A variety of topics involving social, legal and ethical aspects
of computing in the human context; values (including
religious values) and cultural influences; computing in a
global community; ethical behaviour in the work place; a
~ersonal framework for ethical behaviour.
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-. & Recommended Reading
Langford, D., Practical Computer Ethics, McGraw Hill, 1995.
Arnold, R and Hess, D., The Paradox of Economic Growth and
2 Inequality, Victorian Association for Peace Studies, Hampton,
Victoria, Australia, 1994.
ES600 Programming Paradigms
10 credit points .3 hours per week.* Hawthorn *-
Prerequisite: ES200.* Instruction: lecture and laboratory
sessions . Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Software
Engineering and the Bachelor of Applied Science.
Objectives
To introduce the concepts underlying programming
languages; to investigate the major programming paradigms.
Content
Short introduction to formal languages theory, syntax and
grammars, semantics; elements of programming languages,
data abstraction, data types; functions and recursion;
dynamic structures; parallel processing; classification and
characteristics of programming languages, - imperative
programming paradigm, object oriented programming
paradigm, functional programming paradigm, logic
programming paradigm; examples of implementation of the
major programming paradigms (this may include languages :
C+ +, Miranda, Prolog, Lisp, Java and others).
Recommended Reading
Watt, D. Programming La7rguage Concepts and Paradigms,
Prentice Hall, 1991.
ES601 Concurrent Systems
10 credit points .3 hoursper weeks* Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: ESSO1.* Instruction: lecture and laboratory
sessions . Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Software Engineering
and an elective in the Bachelor of Applied Science.
0 biectives
To deepen knowledge of concurrent programming; to study
various paradigms and mechanisms for concurrency; to
consider some parallel algorithms.
Content
Safety, liveness and fairness properties; resource
management and deadlock prevention; monitors; message
passing; remote procedure calls; Linda; transputers and
Occam; parallel algorithms.
Recommended Reading
Burns, A. & Davies, G., Concurrent Programming, 2nd edition,
Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, UK, 1996.
Gehani, N., Ada Concurrent Programming, 2nd edition, Prentice-
Hall, Hemel Hempstead, UK, 1991.
ES603
Software Team Project
10 credit points .3 hours per week.* Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: ES204.e Instruction: lecture and contact with
project supervisor . Assessmat:assignmenr..
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science.
0 b jedives
To apply software engineering principles to the
development and successful implementation of a major
piece of software which satisfies user needs; to learn how to
work effectively and efficiently in a team.
Content
Students work as a team (typically 4-6 individuals) to
develop a software product for a nominated client. Where
possible, clients are external to the School of Computer
Science and Software Engineering. Each group is supervised
closely by a member of staff who acts as project manager.
Three milestones must be satisfied. Teams are require to
produce a formal Management Plan and Software
Requirements document that are in accordance with
currently accepted software engineering ~rinci~les and
practise. These requirements involve analysis of project