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54601 Translator Engineering
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: 543 10 or 54300
Instruction: a combination of lectures and tutorial
sessions
Assessment: assignment and examination
Subject description
Translator engineering: an introduction to translation:
introduction to formal language theory, finite automata,
lexical analysis, and the parsing problem. Students design a
compiler for a simple language.
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54604 Object Oriented Programming
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10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: SQ3 10 or SQ300
Instruction: lectures, tutorials and laboratory
sessions, studying software engineering principles
and goals using object oriented techniques
Assessment: assignments and examination
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methodologies for programming, systems analysis and systems
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Computing in the Human Context
10 credit points
O. No. of hours per week: three hours
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Subject aims
The aim is 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.
Subject description
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.
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54613 Computer Science Team Project
SQ613A
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: lectures and practical work
Assessment: assignments
Subject description
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.
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10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: 5431 0 or SQ300
Instruction: a combination of lectures and tutorial
sessions
Assessment: assignment and examination
Subject description
Computer graphics: hardware for computer graphics; basic 2-D
and 3-D graphics drawing; transformations; data structures for
graphics; windowing and clipping, ray-tracing.
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5461 9 Expert Systems
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: 5441 9 Artificial Intelligence A
Instruction: a combination of lecture and tutorial
sessions
Assessment: project and examination
Subject description
The subject covers the techniques and issues of knowledge,
acquisition and building expert systems.
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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 54523.