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1~916 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
To be advised.
References
To be advised.
1~919 Intelligent Systems Applications
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures, tutorials and
laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignments and a final examination
Subject aims
To discuss the position of expert systems in the world of
artificial intelligence, and the development strategy of expert
systems; to recognise and analyse commercial problems to
which expert systems may generate a solution; to discuss the
nature of expertise and problems and strategies of knowledge
acquisition, including methods of automatic and semiautomatic
knowledge acquisition.
Subject description
Expert systems - problem solving strategies, human computer
interaction, extensibility; knowledge acquisition - nature of
expertise, handcrafted knowledge transfer, automatic and
semi-automatic knowledge acquisition; expert systems
applications - criteria for application selection, areas of
success in the Australian context, the current position of expert
systems in the world scene.
Textbooks
To be advised.
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 objectoriented
systems design methods, and of techniques for
obiect-oriented oroarammina. In addition. software
engineering principks supp