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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Charanya Ramakrishnan
Lecturer
Matthew Roberts
Tutor
Mahdieh Rezaeian
Tutor
Cameron Pappas
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
COMP229 or COMP2000 or COMP249 or COMP2110
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit covers the design and development of mobile applications from a technical and user experience perspective. The underlying environments made available by mobile devices will be reviewed and the relative merits of different implementation technologies will be evaluated. The relationship between mobile applications and the web will be discussed as well as the requirements for providing an effective user-experience for offline and intermittently connected devices. The unit will also cover the design of the user experience for mobile applications and develop students' ability to critically evaluate the usability of a mobile design.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
If you receive special consideration for the final exam, a supplementary exam will be scheduled in the interval between the regular exam period and the start of the next session. By making a special consideration application for the final exam you are declaring yourself available for a resit during the supplementary examination period and will not be eligible for a second special consideration approval based on pre-existing commitments. Please ensure you are familiar with the policy prior to submitting an application. You can check the supplementary exam information page on FSE101 in iLearn (bit.ly/FSESupp) for dates, and approved applicants will receive an individual notification one week prior to the exam with the exact date and time of their supplementary examination.
No extensions will be granted without an approved application for Special Consideration. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. For example, 25 hours late in submission for an assignment worth 10 marks – 20% penalty or 2 marks deducted from the total. No submission will be accepted after solutions have been posted.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Quizzes | 20% | No | Weeks 5 and 8 |
Mobile Application Development | 40% | No | Study Break Week-2 and Week-10 |
Peer Review of the Major Work | 10% | No | Week 8 |
Mobile Security Challenges | 10% | No | Week 12 |
User Experience Report | 20% | No | Week 14 |
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Weeks 5 and 8
Weighting: 20%
Quizzes to assess students individual strengths, weaknesses, knowledge and skills to develop a baseline of what students know about the topic.
Assessment Type 1: Project
Indicative Time on Task 2: 30 hours
Due: Study Break Week-2 and Week-10
Weighting: 40%
Major Work project to assess students' skills on design, implementation, testing and deployment for a Mobile Application.
Assessment Type 1: Qualitative analysis task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: Week 8
Weighting: 10%
Peer Review of the Major Project to be able to assess students' ability to critically evaluate the application based on the given case study
Assessment Type 1: Presentation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 10%
A group presentation to assess students' ability to clearly assess, understand and communicate the security challenges in a mobile application environment
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: Week 14
Weighting: 20%
This assessment is to assess students' ability to create a user experience questionnaire and write a report based on its feedback
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
COMP3130 is taught via lectures and SGTAs (Small Group Teaching Activities)/ Practical Classes
There are no required textbooks for this unit. However, every week you will be provided with resources to obtain a solid understanding of the concept
The web page for this unit can be found at: here
Digital recordings of lectures are available and will be accessible through echo360 found on your iLearn home page
Discussion Boards
The unit makes use of discussion boards hosted within iLearn. Please post questions of general interest there (for example, about assessment tasks), they are monitored by the unit staff but students may also provide answers.
Feedback
You have many opportunities to seek and to receive feedback. During live lectures/consultation, you are encouraged to ask the lecturer questions to clarify anything you might not be sure of. You may also arrange to meet with your tutor or the lecturer or attend the consultation hours of any tutor. Each week, you will be given activities and problems to solve in workshops. It is important that you keep up with these problems every week.
Each week you should:
Technology
React Native with Expo, Android Studio, LucidCharts
In the table below, for each week, the lecturer, the topics to be covered and the textbook references are given.
Week |
Lecturer |
Topic |
1 |
Ramakrishnan |
Introduction to the unit and React Native |
2 |
Ramakrishnan |
Application Design and Development |
3 |
Ramakrishnan |
Application Design and Development |
4 |
Ramakrishnan |
Application Design and Development |
5 |
Ramakrishnan |
Application Design and Development |
6 |
Ramakrishnan |
Application Design and Development |
7 |
Roberts |
Testing and Deployment |
8 |
Roberts |
Testing and Deployment + User Experience (UX) |
9 |
Roberts |
User Experience (UX) |
10 |
Roberts |
Security |
11 |
Roberts |
Security |
12 |
Roberts | |
13 |
Ramakrishnan & Roberts |
Overview of the unit |
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This is the first offering for this unit.
Unit information based on version 2021.03 of the Handbook