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This subject is designed to provide you with hands on practical experience developing software in a project environment. You work in teams and will complete projects from inception to implementation.
This subject includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to your experience.
As the project teams and projects will be assigned during the first week all enrolled students are advised to engage with the subject from the beginning of week 1.
Please note: This subject is considered to be a capstone subject for the Bachelor of Information Technology degree in which students demonstrate their competency in a (simulated) Work Integrated Learning (WIL) environment.
All students seeking the Bachelor of Information Technology award will need to complete this subject.

Progress a profession in programming. Get hands-on experience and work with teams developing software in a commercial project setting. Integrate formal project management methods. Track and manage project process from concept to implementation.

Programming Project

This subject aims to provide a broad introduction to the fundamentals of data communication and network technology. The emphasis is on higher aspects of data communication from the perspective of computer scientists and information technologists; the subject covers the underlying mechanisms and their characteristics that need to be considered by communicating application software.
Topics include:
<ul><li>principles and reference models of data communication;</li><li>basic operation of communication systems;</li><li>protocols and error handling, and applications in networked environments.</li></ul>

Learn how people, devices, information and services are continuously connected by an evolving data communications network. Gain critical analysis talent, uncover data communication methods, and reveal the drivers for adopting alternative technologies.

Data Communication and Net-Centric Computing

This subject is designed to provide you opportunity to gain knowledge and skills necessary to analyse, design and implement complex software engineering projects.
You should learn to analyse and design fairly complex real-life systems, working as teams. You are also made aware of current software engineering standards and processes. You are also taught to consider qualitative aspects including maintainability, extensibility, reusability and robustness in every stage of the software-engineering life-cycle. 
At the end of the subject you should be able to combine top-down and bottom-up approaches to software design and choose the most appropriate process considering the underlying technology, project duration, the level of risks and the customer expectations.

Navigate the quality, reusability and effectiveness of the software engineering lifecycle. Design, refine and assess complex systems. Be objective and develop solutions for actual problems. Use top-down and bottom-up design methods to find best fit.

Software Engineering Fundamentals

Cloud Computing is a large-scale distributed computing paradigm which has become a driving force for information technology over the past several years. The exponential growth data size in scientific instrumentation/simulation and social media has triggered the wider use of cloud computing services.This course covers topics and technologies related to Cloud Computing and their practical implementations. You should explore different architectural models of cloud computing, the concepts of virtualisation and cloud orchestration. You should gain hands-on experience with various features of popular cloud platforms such as Google App Engine and Amazon Web Service throughout the lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions. Advanced cloud programming paradigms such as Hadoop’s MapReduce is also included in the course. You should also learn the concept of modern Big Data analysis on cloud platforms using various data mining tools and techniques. The lab sessions cover cloud application development and deployment, use of cloud storage, creation and configuration of virtual machines and data analysis on cloud using data mining tools. Different application scenarios from popular domains that leverage the cloud technologies such as remote healthcare and social networks will be explained. The theoretical knowledge, practical sessions and assignments aim to help you to build your skills to develop large-scale industry standard applications using cloud platforms and tools.This course focuses on learning emerging issues related to Cloud computing technology. The objectives are:<ul><li>Understand various basic concepts related to cloud computing technologies</li><li>Understand the architecture and concept of different cloud models: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS</li><li>Understand big data analysis tools and techniques</li><li>Understand the underlying principle of cloud virtualization, cloud storage, data management and data visualization.</li><li>Understand different cloud programming platforms and tools</li><li>Have details knowledge on reading and writing in cloud storage</li><li>Be familiar with application development and deployment using cloud platforms</li><li>Create application by utilizing cloud platforms such as Google app Engine and Amazon Web Services (AWS)</li><li>Learn to develop scalable applications using AWS features.</li><li>Learn basic concepts of MapReduce programming models for big data analysis on cloud.</li></ul>

Round off your IT course with an exploration of cloud platforms, apps, and databases. Elevate your coding to include advanced cloud programming. Unpack big data and cloud storage. Complete problem-solving tasks and gain hands-on experience.

Cloud Computing

The course introduces you to the basic concepts of the World Wide Web, and the principles and tools that are used to develop Web applications. The course will provide an overview of Internet technology and will introduce you to current Web protocols, client side and server side programming, communication and design.

Gain worldwide web skills using principles and tools to develop web applications. Communicate in the language of IT. Get more acquainted with technology, design and HTML5, CSS, SSI and XML web protocols. Learn client-side and server-side programming.

Web Programming

One of the roles of the IT professional is to design and build systems and integrate them into an organization. You should encounter a variety of platforms in your career. The role of the IT professional is to select, deploy, integrate and administer platforms or components to support the organisation’s IT infrastructure. This course aims to cover the skills in the fundamentals of hardware and software and how they integrate to form essential components of IT systems. It aims to develop skills and concepts that are essential to the administration of operating systems, networks, software, and file systems, file servers, web systems In addition it provides an introduction to networking concepts and components that are in common use, including mobile telephony and networks. It also aims to develop the skills to gather requirements, source, evaluate and integrate components into a single system, and validate the system.

Build and design integrated computer systems that power organisations. Explore new network technology. Map and navigate computer architecture. Learn to select, deploy, integrate and manage new platforms to support existing operating environments.

Introduction to Computer Systems

Databases and the database technology are having a major impact on the growing use of computers. They play a critical role in almost all areas where computers are used.This course is an introduction to the principles, use, and applications of database systems. It assumes no previous knowledge of databases or database technologies. This course focuses on developing skills in designing databases for efficient data management and SQL programming for querying and using databases for various database applications.

Dig into data principles. Explore the use and application of database systems. Learn how to design and apply software solutions to meet requirements and specifications. Assess and compare software assets and IT systems for organisational and user fit.

Database Concepts

This course teaches programming principles, skills and practices for modern software development, continuing the study of software design and development in pre-requisite courses. Concepts in this include dynamic memory management, advanced typing and polymorphism, automated build systems, defensive programming, debugging, testing, and adherence to modern coding standards and practices. This course uses the C++ programming language for the practical implementation and practice of these concepts. This course may serve as a foundation for further studies in Information Technology, Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Advanced Programming Techniques

This subject was previously known as “Software Architecture: Design and Implementation”
This subject provides students with an advanced understanding of software development with an emphasis on architecture and design, and how this relates to programming and implementation. Students will explore advanced object oriented concepts and the relationship between design in Unified Modelling Language (UML) and its expression in code and how this is supported by modelling tools and development platforms; parallelism using multi-threading, and first principles client server architecture using socket communications and basic protocols. Students will also explore common object oriented design patterns and their application in domain-specific contexts as well as user interface programming.
The subject builds upon existing programming knowledge using Java as the implementation platform, and assumes students already have a basic understanding of Java programming and basic object oriented concepts.

Explore object orientated concepts for designing software architecture. Learn how UML talks in code backed by multi-threading and modelling tools. Build on your prior knowledge, and use interface programming with Java as the implementation platform.

Further Programming

This course introduces Object-Oriented programming using the Java programming language. This course covers: algorithm development using standard control structures; design methods such as step-wise refinement and object oriented programming; the use of standard Java classes and interfaces; the use of standard APIs; I/O processing; and programming style and code reuse.

Program a future in Object-Orientated Programming using Java classes and interfaces. Create algorithms to specification using standard control structures and step-wise refinement. Reuse code and devise strategies to test new software.

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