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Designed to help you build our digital future, La Trobe’s Bachelor of Information Technology online is designed specifically for online learning. The study materials are designed by our academic experts with years of experience in the field. The course ensures that you are career-ready at the end of your degree with an industry relevant curriculum and 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 software engineering or cloud analytics, areas aligned to future industry growth.Broaden your knowledge and capabilities by combining your core IT skills with business, social sciences, humanities, web engineering, computer technology, security and information systems analysis subjects.With industry-based projects and certification opportunities 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:•	Web and software developmento	Develop and build websites and software. Administer the front end, back end and server side of websites and IT systems.•	IT systems analysis and designo	Understand and analyse IT systems to deliver more efficient and effective IT solutions for your organisation.•	Designo	Learn about software, system and network design so you can contribute to making better programs and infrastructure.•	Programming and networkingo	Learn the language of computers and how they communicate with one another to create working code and smarter systems.•	Project management, estimation, documentation and report evaluationo	IT is more than just computers. Learning to manage projects and communicate effectively is a must in any organisational environment.

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

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.

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 assumes the fundamental web technologies have already been taught in the prerequisite subjects. 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) This subject will also cover the fundamental of cloud computing platform and its features.

Cloud-Based Web Application

This subject is aimed at providing you with a modern view on how software is assessed for quality. We focus heavily on test automation as mechanism to achieve this. The industry-based roles associated with software measurement and testing are taken as models to describe the types of tasks undertaken by professionals in this sector. In this subject you will have hands-on practice with assessing software against quality metrics and facilitating automated testing using the latest frameworks.

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

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

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