1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SQ606 Computing in the Human Context
10 credit points l 3 hours per week l Hawthorn l
Instruction: combination of lecture and tutorial sessions
l 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.
0 b jectives
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 Project
10 credit points l 3 hours per week l Hawthorn l
Prerequisite: SQ310 or SQ314 and SQ305 l Instruction:
lectures and practical work l Assessment: assignments
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 l 3 hours per week l Hawthorn l
Prerequisite SQ310 or SQ300 l Instruction: combination of
lectures and tutorial sessions l Assessment: assignment and
examination
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.
SQ6 1 9 Expert Systems
10 credit points e3 hours per week l Hawthorn l
Prerequisite SQ419 l Instruction: a combination of lecture
and tutorial sessions l Assessment: project and examination
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 week l Hawthorn l
Prerequisite: SQ310 or SQ300 l Assessment: assignments and
examination
An elective subject in Bachelor of Applied Science.
Objectives
To ~rovide 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.
SQ702 Systems Programming
12.5 credit points l 4 hours per week l Hawthorn l
Prerequisities: SQ700 or equivalent approved C competence
l Instruction: combination of lectures and laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignments and a examination
A subject of the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science
(Computer Science).
0 b jectives
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
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