Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group activities on campus, and most will keep an online version available to those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
To check the availability of face-to-face and online activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.
Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Charanya Ramakrishnan
Lecturer
Yan Wang
Tutor
Zawar Hussain
Tutor
Mahdieh Rezaeian
Tutor
Sarah Ali Siddiqui
Tutor
Darius Taslim
Tutor
Natalie Batshon
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
COMP2750
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit is an intermediate unit for the processes, methods, techniques and tools that organisations use to determine how they should conduct their business, with a particular focus on how computer-based technologies can most effectively contribute to the way business is structured. Study focuses on the fundamental concepts and models of applications development so that they can understand they key processes related to building functioning applications and appreciate the complexity of applications development. The unit emphasises program development and incorporates the software development life cycle, requirements gathering, designing a solution, and implementing and testing a solution in a programming language.
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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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Diagnostic Quiz in Workshops | 25% | No | Weeks 4,7, and 11 |
Requirements Gathering and Analysis | 25% | No | Study Break Week-1 |
Application Design | 25% | No | Week-9 |
Application Development and Testing | 25% | No | Week-13 |
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 14 hours
Due: Weeks 4,7, and 11
Weighting: 25%
Quizzes to determine students individual strengths, weaknesses, knowledge and skills to develop a baseline of what students know about the topic.
Assessment Type 1: Case study/analysis
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Study Break Week-1
Weighting: 25%
This assignment will develop and test your skills in requirements gathering, specification, analysis and modelling.
Assessment Type 1: Design Task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week-9
Weighting: 25%
This assignment will develop and test your skills in designing applications for the given case study
Assessment Type 1: Design Implementation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week-13
Weighting: 25%
This assignment will develop and assess your design, development and testing applications for the given case study.
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
COMP6750 is taught via lectures and SGTAs/Practical Classes.
There are no required textbooks for this unit. However, every week you will be provided with lecture notes and references for further reading
The web page for this unit can be found at: here
Digital recordings of lectures are available. Read instructions here.
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.
You have many opportunities to seek and to receive feedback. The feedback that you receive also plays an important role in your learning. Make sure you read the feedback you are given, attend lectures which provide assignment feedback and compare your solution with sample solutions provided. During lecture consultations, 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. Consultation hours will be provided in some of the weeks. Each week, you will be given activities and problems to solve in the workshops. This will at times involve contributing to a group of students and presenting solutions to the class. The solutions provided will help you to understand the material in the unit and prepare you for the work in assignments. You must keep up with these problems every week. Assignments have been specially designed to deliver continuous feedback on your work.
Each week you should:
Lecture notes/videos are made available each week but these notes are intended as an outline of the lecture only and are not a substitute for your notes or reading of the other additional material.
Tentative teaching schedule, subject to change:
Week | Topic | Lecturer | To Note |
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Unit Overview + Information Systems + SDLC process |
Y.Wang |
No Workshops this week |
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Development Methodologies + Agile Modelling |
Y.Wang |
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Project Management |
Y.Wang | |
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Discovering Requirements |
Y.Wang | Online Quiz 1 due |
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Documenting System Requirements through diagrams-1 |
C.Ramakrishnan | |
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Documenting System Requirements through diagrams-2, Validation, and Prototyping |
C.Ramakrishnan | |
Teaching Break (2 weeks) 2nd April 2021 to 18th April 2021 Assignment-1 will be due sometime in the first week of the study break Students are expected to catch up with unit content (Weeks 1-6) and continue working on Assignment 2 |
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7 | Designing Databases | C.Ramakrishnan | Online Quiz 2 due |
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Designing Input, Output, Test cases |
C.Ramakrishnan | |
9 |
Human-Computer Interaction |
C.Ramakrishnan | Assignment-2 due |
10 |
Testing and Quality Assurance |
C.Ramakrishnan | |
11 |
Client-side Development |
Y.Wang | Online Quiz 3 due |
12 |
Server-side Development and Testing |
Y.Wang | |
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Assignment-3 due |
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Changes to the Assessments. No final exam in S1, 2021 offering
Unit information based on version 2021.02 of the Handbook