Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor and Lecturer
Charanya Ramakrishnan
Contact via Email
Lecturer
Yan Wang
Contact via Email
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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. |
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Details for each assessment will be available via iLearn.
You are encouraged to:
Submission Method: via timed online iLearn quizzes during the registered SGTA class time.
Late Submission: Not accepted. The quizzes must be undertaken at the time indicated in the unit guide. Should the activity be missed due to illness or misadventure, Special Consideration may be applied.
Submission Method: via iLearn submission links. For Assignment-3 viva, if absent during the group presentation, unless there is a special consideration approved, students will be given zero marks for the entire Assignment-3.
Late Submission: Late submissions will be accepted but will incur a penalty unless there is an approved Special Consideration request. A 12-hour grace period will be given after which the following deductions will be applied to the awarded assessment mark: 12 to 24 hours late = 10% deduction; for each day thereafter, an additional 10% per day or part thereof will be applied until five days beyond the due date. After this time, a mark of zero (0) will be given. For example, an assessment worth 20% is due at 5 pm on 1 January. Student A submits the assessment at 1 pm, 3 January. The assessment received a mark of 15/20. A 20% deduction is then applied to the mark of 15, resulting in the loss of three (3) marks. Student A is then awarded a final mark of 12/20.
If you cannot submit on time because of illness or other circumstances, please apply for special consideration as soon as possible through https://ask.mq.edu.au/. Note: applications for Special Consideration Policy must be made within 5 (five) business days of the due date and time.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Requirements Gathering and Analysis | 25% | No | Study Break-1 |
Application Design | 25% | No | Week 10 |
Diagnostic Quiz in Workshops | 25% | No | Weeks 4,9,13 |
Application Development and Testing | 25% | No | Week 13 |
Assessment Type 1: Case study/analysis
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Study Break-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 10
Weighting: 25%
This assignment will develop and test your skills in designing applications for the given case study
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 14 hours
Due: Weeks 4,9,13
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: 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 SGTA Classes.
At the time of writing this unit guide, the plan is:
The online delivery of lectures and online SGTA will be via Macquarie University's Zoom web conferencing system (https://macquarie.zoom.us/). You will be able to log in using your Macquarie OneID.
Any changes to this plan will be announced in iLearn.
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 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 that provide assignment feedback and compare your solution with sample solutions provided. 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 SGTAs. 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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1 |
Unit Overview + Information Systems + SDLC process |
Y.Wang |
No Workshops this week |
2 |
Development Methodologies + Agile Modelling |
Y.Wang |
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3 |
Project Management |
Y.Wang | |
4 |
Discovering Requirements |
Y.Wang | Online Quiz 1 due |
5 |
Documenting System Requirements through diagrams-1 |
C.Ramakrishnan | |
6 |
Documenting System Requirements through diagrams-2, Validation, and Prototyping |
C.Ramakrishnan | |
7 | Designing Output, Input | C.Ramakrishnan | |
Assignment-1 due (in the first week of the study break) Teaching Break (2 weeks) 11th April 2022 to 26th April 2022 Students are expected to catch up with unit content (Weeks 1-7) and continue working on Assignment 2 |
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8 |
Designing Databases |
C.Ramakrishnan | |
9 |
Human-Computer Interaction |
C.Ramakrishnan |
Online Quiz 2 due |
10 |
Testing and Quality Assurance |
C.Ramakrishnan | Assignment-2 due |
11 |
Client-side Development |
Y.Wang | |
12 |
Server-side Development and Testing |
Y.Wang | |
13 |
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Online Quiz 3 due Assignment-3 due |
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Unit information based on version 2022.04 of the Handbook