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Designed to help you build our digital future, La Trobe’s Bachelor of Information Technology equips you with skills across programming, networking, databases, systems analysis and design, and project management.Along with building a strong set of core IT skills you can choose to major in one of several areas aligned to future industry growth including artificial intelligence, cloud analytics, cybersecurity, network engineering or information systems.Broaden your knowledge and capabilities further through a wide range of electives. Combine your core IT skills with business, social sciences, humanities, web engineering, computer technology, security and information systems analysis subjects. Plus you could develop a software program of your own, which you could present at the annual Engineering and IT Showcase to potential employers.With industry-based projects and CISCO certification embedded in the course, you’ll receive professional mentoring opportunities as you build career ready skills. You’ll also gain access to our expert research centres, including the Centre for Technology Infusion and our state-of-the-art Technology Innovation Lab for the Internet of Things – developed in collaboration with Microsoft and CISCO.You&#39;ll learn:<ul><li>Web and software development<ul><li>Develop and build websites and software. Administer the front end, back end and server side of websites and IT systems.</li></ul></li><li>IT systems analysis and design<ul><li>Understand and analyse IT systems to deliver more efficient and effective IT solutions for your organisation.</li></ul></li><li>Design<ul><li>Learn about software, system and network design so you can contribute to making better programs and infrastructure.</li></ul></li><li>Programming and networking<ul><li>Learn the language of computers and how they communicate with one another to create working code and smarter systems.</li></ul></li><li>Project management, estimation, documentation and report evaluation<ul><li>IT is more than just computers. Learning to manage projects and communicate effectively is a must in any organisational environment.</li></ul></li></ul>

Graduate with industry relevant knowledge and experience—and work across almost any sector. You’ll develop your core IT skills in programming, networking and databases. Sharpen your competitive edge with AI and cloud tech to get you job-ready.

Bachelor of Information Technology

Programming Environment

Software Development Studio 1

Applied Data Structures

Software Engineering: Transform

In this subject you are introduced to the steps involved in designing and creating a software solution to simple real-life problems. To enable students to design a program, the subject introduces the way to break down the problems into smaller parts and analyse them methodically by using simple techniques such as drawing flowcharts. You will be introduced to the Python programming language as a means of creating executable program code to implement working software solutions.

This subject introduces you to system analysis and design with Object-oriented (OO) modelling techniques for software system engineering. Major topics include introduction to software development process, requirements modelling, domain modelling, behavioural modelling, structural modelling and dynamic modelling. You will learn the use of Unified Modelling Language (UML) for the analysis and design phases of systems. You will gain the ability to apply knowledge of basic science and software engineering fundamentals to software systems analysis and design.

System Analysis and Design

This subject provides a modern view on how to assess, evaluate and measure software and systems quality. In this subject, you will gain hands-on, practical experience with planning, strategising, designing, measuring and assessing software and systems quality. Topics include manual and automated testing using industry-recognised techniques and frameworks, performance testing, metrics for measuring test progress and software quality and complexity, and guidance on how international standards can be utilised to enhance software quality. The industry-based roles, processes and practices associated with software testing and measurement are taken as models to describe and demonstrate the types of tasks and practices undertaken by professionals within this sector of the IT industry.

Software Measurement and Testing

Throughout your studies to date, you’ve learned how to program a computer. You should already be very familiar with the basic building blocks of computer programs: variables, loops, branching structures, functions, and the like. This subject will focus on tools and techniques for software development, the process of designing, delivering, and maintaining high-quality software. You will develop substantially complex software using design patterns in the C++ programming language, and you will learn about the realities of software development from industry experts.

Professional Software Development

This subject is an introduction to mobile application development, including programming paradigms, models, technologies and platforms. The unique considerations for programming with mobile devices will be studied, including application architectures, mobile user interface issues, context-aware computing, the use of mobile sensing, middleware, mobile data management, and programming with wireless connections. Development of a range of mobile and wearable form factors will be discussed, from smartphones, to tablets of varying sizes. You will select one major platform as their specialisation to develop applications and implement their major programming assignment.

Mobile Application Development

Creating websites that scale to serve hundreds of millions of users with acceptable response times is challenging. The main focus of this subject is on cloud computing concepts and tools needed to make websites scalable. This subject builds on students&#39; prior experience with programming and information technology systems. The subject will cover topics in the cloud computing concept and technologies, such as cloud repository, virtualisation, the framework for frontend and backend development, API, web server storage, and the management of application development (CI/CD).

Cloud-Based Web Application

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