Requirements to Pass this Unit

To pass this unit you must:

• Achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50%, and
• Participate in, and undertake all hurdle activities for, a minimum of 8 out of the 12 weekly workshops.

Workshop Hurdle

The workshop is a hurdle requirement, you must get 8 out of the possible 10 marks to pass the hurdle. Second chance: You don't have a second chance for each of the 12 weekly workshops, but you will have a total of 12 weeks where you could attend - hence you can miss at most four weeks of workshop tasks.

Late Submission

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark of the task) will be applied for each day a written report or presentation assessment is not submitted, up until the 7^th day (including weekends). After the 7^th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. The submission time for all uploaded assessments is 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period will be provided to students who experience a technical concern.

For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, please apply for Special Consideration.

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted:

• Weekly Workshops - No, unless Special Consideration is granted
• Module Exams - No, unless Special Consideration is granted
• Web Development Project - YES, standard Late Penalty applies

Special Consideration

The Special Consideration Policy aims to support students who have been impacted by short-term circumstances or events that are serious, unavoidable and significantly disruptive, and which may affect their performance in assessment.  

Weekly Workshop tasks: To pass the unit you need to demonstrate ongoing development of skills and application of knowledge in at least 8 out of 12 of the weekly workshop classes. If you miss a class, you should ensure that you follow the workshop materials available online and contact your tutor or the lecturer if you have questions. Note that a Special Consideration should only be applied for if you miss more than three of the weekly workshop classes.

Web Development Project:  this assessment task has a number of submission points, both individual and group submissions.  If you are affected by an unavoidable disruption for one of these submissions you should apply for Special Conisderation and an extension of time will usually be granted. For a group submission, an extension for the whole group will be considered.

Classes

COMP2110 is taught mainly through online notes and video presentations with a one-hour lecture. Each week a number of video presentations will be made available on iLearn, you should watch these and follow up on the topics covered before the lecture. The lecture will recap some of the video content and provide a forum for discussion of the topics of the week, as well as preview the video content in the following week.

You will also have a two-hour workshop each week in the computer laboratory.This will be used as a combined tutorial and practical class, with tasks each week to engage you in the topics we are discussing. The workshops give you a chance to talk over any problems with your tutor. There will be a checkpoint task each week for you to complete in the workshop, you must do this in the workshop and show your tutor the result.  There is no workshop class in Week 1 but there is a non-workshop task that you can gain marks for - see iLearn for details.

Since your tutor will be keeping track of your marks, you should attend the workshop that you enroll in. If you do need to change, make sure your tutor and the tutor in the new class agree.

Required Texts

There is no required text for COMP2110. We have written a set of notes for the unit which will be added to through the semester. You can find them here:

• Practical Web Programming

We will also provide notes, slides and links to other resources each week. It is important that you follow up links provided with the video presentations and in the notes on each topic.

Required Technology

We will use Visual Studio Code as the recommended development environment although you are free to use your own favourite editor if you wish. You will be making use of a number of different web browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Opera...) to test web pages. You will use Node Javascript engine.  All of this software will run on Windows, Mac or Linux. 

Methods of Communication

We will communicate with you via your university email or through announcements on iLearn. Queries to teaching staffs can either be placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent emails from your university email address.

COVID Information

For the latest information on the University’s response to COVID-19, please refer to the Coronavirus infection page on the Macquarie website: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/coronavirus-faqs. Remember to check this page regularly in case the information and requirements change during semester. If there are any changes to this unit in relation to COVID, these will be communicated via iLearn.

The schedule below is the planned Module list for the unit but minor changes may be made in response to student feedback or other factors. See the iLearn unit page for the definitive and more detailed week by week breakdown.

The last few offerings have used the Strapi server software to provide a back-end for the web development projects. This proved to be difficult to manage for students and created more problems than it solved, hence we have moved away from Strapi this time.  Now, we will use a simple custom written server application to support the major project and focus more on client side web development.  

We have also changed the balance of assessment in this unit to reduce the number of different tasks that students were asked to do.   The previous "Legal and Ethics Report" has been removed.   The Web Development project will be run as a group project; the coding requirement has been simplified and we concentrate on developing and deploying a realistic front-end web application.  We have introduced a modular structure for the unit and added four module exams on each topic. These will be run during weekly workshop sessions.   The final exam will cover all material in the unit including aspects of the web development project experience.