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implementations; trees; heaps and priority queues; graphs;
exceptions in C+ +; multiple inheritance; random access
files in C+ +; introduction to 00 design patterns.
Recommended Reading
Budd, T.A., Classic Data Structures in C+ +, Addison-Wesley,
Reading, Ma, 1994.
Gorlen, K.E., Sanford, M.O. & Perry, S., Data Abstraction and
Object-Oriented Programming in C+ +, Wiley, Chichester, UK,
1991.
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ES750 Object-Oriented Saftware Development 2
10 credit points .4 hours per week.. Hawthorn
Prerequisite: ES700.e Instruction: lectures and laborato y
sessions Assessment: assignments, laborato y tests and final
examination
A subject in the Graduate Diploma (Computer Science)
0 bjedives
Intermediate-level proficiency in programming using C+ +;
proficiency in object-oriented analysis and design.
Content
Advanced object modelling (including inheritance); task
scripts and use cases; the dynamic model; C+ + inheritance
and run-time polymorphism; + + techniques to implement
associations; C pointers; recursion; introduction to
algorithm complexity; C+ + templates and container
classes; dynamic object creation and destruction; linked
lists.
Recommended Reading
Deitel, H.M. & Deitel, P.J., C++ How to Program, Prentice-
Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994.
Perry, J.E. & Levin, H.D., An Introduction to Object-oriented
Design in C+ +,
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Addison-Wesley, Reading, Ma, 1996.
ES752 Systems Programming
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10 credit points .4 hoursper week.. Hawthorn
Prerequisite: ES700, ES707.m Instruction: lectures and
laborato y sessions. Assessment: assignments and final
examination
A subject in the Graduate Diploma (Computer Science)
Objectives
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.
C
E Content
8 Low level I/O; file system access and manipulation; time
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under UNIX""; process control; accessing user
P. - 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 Programming, Prentice-Hall,
1990.
ES754 Software Engineering 1
10 credit points .3 hoursper week.. Hawthorn .
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Prerequisite: nil: However students who have not passed
ES700 must study that subject concurrently with ES7fi4.m
Instruction: lectures and tutorials Assessment: assignments
and final examination
A subject in the Graduate Diploma (Computer Science)
0 b jectives
To introduce the basic problems which are encountered in
the development and maintenance of software in a small
team environment; to examine the current techniques and
tools which are used by industry to address the above
problems; to allow students to experience the development
of management, analysis, design and end-user
documentation, working as a member of a small (eg 2-4
person) software project team.
Content
Software lifecycle models; human factors (incl. personality,
group working); planning tasks and resource allocation;
software specification; software design; software
implementation techniques and tools; software validation;
software maintenance; user documentation.
Recommended Reading
Ghezzi, G., Jazayeri, M. & Mandrioli, D., Fundamentals of
Sofware Engineering, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1991.
Henderson-Sellers, B. & Edwards, J.M., Book Two of Object-
Oriented Knowledge: i%e Working Object, Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994.
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ES757 Data Communications
10 credit points .4 hours per week.. Hawthorn
Prerequisite: ES700 Instruction: lectures and laborato y
sessions Assessment: assignments and final examination
A subject in the Graduate Diploma (Computer Science)
Obiedives
To introduce the fundamental concepts and components
involved in data communications; to develop an
understanding of communication protocols and computer
networks.
Content
Historical evolution of computer communications,
standards. codes. introduction to the IS0 reference model:
basic communication theories and techno1ogies:transmission
media, signal types, interface standards; protocol basics:
error control methods, flow control, link management;
terminal based networks: statistical multiplexers,
concentrators. front-end Drocessors and terminal network
protocols; local area networks: topologies and access
methods, LAN management; public data networks, ISDN,
standards, wide area networks; OSI: the seven layer model,
layer interaction, comparison of architectures; message
handling systems: standards, examples.
Recommended Reading
Halsall, F., Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open
Systems, 4th Edition, Addison Wesley,1995.