SISAT

School of Information Systems and Technology

Faculty of Informatics

                                                                                                                                                              

BUSS214 – Information Systems Development 1

Subject Outline

Autumn Session 2007

                                                                                                                                                              

Head of School –Associate Professor Peter Hyland, Student Resource Centre, Tel: (02) 4221 3606

 

General Information

 

Dr Mark Sifer

Telephone Number:

42214919

Email:

msifer@uow.edu.au

Location:

40.238A

 

Dr Sifer’s Consultation Times During Session


Day

Time

Wednesday     

Thursday

  9.30 - 11.30     

14.00 - 16.00

 

 


Subject Organisation

Session:

Autumn session, Wollongong Campus

Credit Points

6 credit points

Contact hours per week:

2L,2CL

Lecture Times & Location:

Lecture

Thu

10:30

12:30

20.5

Tutorial Day, Time and Location can be found at:

http://www.uow.edu.au/student/sols/timetables/index.html

 


 

 

Proposed Lecture Schedule

Week

Topic

Comments

1

Overview and Introduction to C# .NET

 

2

Review of procedural programming in C#

Lab 1

3

Entering records (objects, forms, arrays)

Lab 2 (5 marks)

4

Finding and updating records (lists & hashtables)

Lab 3 (5 marks)

5

Object Oriented  Modeling & Inheritance I

Lab 4 (5 marks)

6

Object Oriented  Modeling & Inheritance II

No Lab (public holiday)

 

Mid Semester Recess

 

7

Mid Term Test in Lecture/More Inheritance

Lab 5 (5 marks)

8

Storing Records (in files and XML)

Lab 6

9

OO Case study

Lab 7 (5 marks)

10

Building a more complex user interface (tables etc)

Lab 8

11

ADO .NET: using a database I

Lab 9 (5 marks)

12

ADO .NET: using a database II

Lab 10

13

 Revision

Lab 11 (5 marks)

 

Note: This program is subject to change based on the progress of the class.

 


Students should check the subject’s web site regularly as important information, including details of unavoidable changes in assessment requirements will be posted from time to time.  Any information posted to the web site is deemed to have been notified to all students.

 

Content

The aims of this subject are to consolidate and extend student's knowledge and skills in structured programming and to introduce them to the concepts and practice of object oriented programming. To achieve this aim the subject will provide students with an opportunity to develop further programming skills and good coding style; develop skills in using the object-oriented concepts of inheritance, encapsulation, construction, access control, overloading and messaging; develop and display competency in the design and implementation of object-oriented programs to solve business problems.

 

Objectives

On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to: demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the concepts of a well structured solution and good coding style within an object-oriented programming environment; define and use the concept of an object in an object-oriented program development environment; write correct and maintainable object-oriented

 

 

Attendance Requirements

It is the responsibility of students to attend all lectures/tutorials/labs/seminars/practical work for subjects for which you are enrolled.

 

Attendance and participation in lectures, tutorials and web-mediated activities is a requirement for the successful completion of this course.  Failure to do so may result in a fail grade being recorded.  A good indicator of satisfactory attendance is approximately 80% of the allocated contact hours.  Attendance per se is not an assessable component of the course.

 

It should be noted that according to Course Rule 003{Interpretation Point 2 (t)} each credit point for a single session subject has the value of about two hours per week including class attendance.  Therefore, the amount of time spent on each 6 credit point subject should be at least 12 hours per week, which includes lectures/tutorials/labs etc


 


Students MUST attend their allocated tutorial unless they have the written permission of the subject coordinator.

 


Method of Presentation

This is a laboratory based subject. Concepts and examples are presented in lectures and practiced in the laboratories. Each week's laboratory exercise will usually be available on the e-Learning website by late Tuesday. Lecture's include slides, working through concepts and problems on the whiteboard and interactive development of software. A summary of each week's lecture will also be posted on the e-Learning website each week.     



 

Subject Materials

 


Textbook: Deitel, "Visual C# 2005 How to program", Pearson International Edition.


 
 
 
Assessment

This subject has the following assessment components.

Assessment Items & Format

Percentage of Final Mark

Due Date


Laboratory Exercises (best 6 out of 7)

30%

In the laboratory

Mid-semester test

10%

In the week 7 lecture

Final examination

60%

In the formal examination period


 


 

Notes on Assessment

 


Participation in weekly laboratories is essential to learning in this subject. There are 11 weekly laboratories. Seven of the laboratories are assessable (weeks 3,4,5,7,9,11,13). The best 6 laboratory marks will contribute to 30% of the overall assessment. This allows one laboratory to be missed without explanation. However, if special consideration is sought for missing a laboratory then it must be sought for ALL missed laboratories.

 

Students are expected to start work on laboratory exercises in their own time prior to scheduled laboratory. The exercises are assessed on: meeting the requirements specified, programming organisation and style, ability to modify their submitted code if requested and ability to answer questions about submitted code if requested. For example, a student who submits a laboratory exercise but can not answer questions about their code would receive zero for that exercise.

 

Marks for assessments will be given in the final part of labs.

 

Attendance at the Week 7 mid-semester test is required to achieve an overall pass for this subject. In the event of illness or misadventure special consideration should be sought for this.

 

To be eligible to pass this subject, students must achieve an overall mark of at least 50%, and at least 40% on the final exam.

 

Scaling

Final results in this subject may be scaled. The scaling method that will be used in this subject is as follows.

If E is the student exam mark, and A is the student assignment mark, the student final mark will be determined as follows:

 

if E >= 40% of the maximum exam mark: then student final mark is E + A;

if 35% <= E < 40% of the maximum exam mark: then student final mark is /min/{E+A, 47};

                  if E < 35% of the maximum exam mark: then student: final mark is /min/{E+A, 42}.

 

Additional Information

 

Students must refer to the Faculty Handbook or online references which contains a range of policies on educational issues and student matters.


 

Supplementary Exams

 

While the School normally grants supplementary exams when the student does not sit the standard exam for an acceptable reason, each case will be assessed on its own merit and there is no guarantee a supplementary exam will be granted. If a supplementary exam is granted the date will be determined by the University via ARD.  You will be notified via SOLS Mail the time and date of this supplementary exam. You must follow the instructions given in the email message.

 

Please note that if this is your last session and you are granted a supplementary exam, be aware that your results will not be processed in time to meet the graduation deadline.

 

Plagiarism

 

When you submit an assessment task, you are declaring the following

1.        It is your own work and you did not collaborate with or copy from others.

2.        You have read and understand your responsibilities under the University of Wollongong's policy on plagiarism.

3.        You have not plagiarised from published work (including the internet). Where you have used the work from others, you have referenced it in the text and provided a reference list at the end ot the assignment.

4.        Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

5.        Students are responsible for submitting original work for assessment, without plagiarising or cheating, abiding by the University’s policies on Plagiarism as set out in the Calendar under University Policies, and in Faculty handbooks and subject guides. Plagiarism has led to the expulsion from the University.

 

 

This outline should be read in conjunction with the following documents:

 

Code of Practice - Teaching and Assessment

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/teaching_code.html

Key Dates

http://www.uow.edu.au/student/dates.html

Code of Practice - Students

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/cop_students.html

Information Literacies Introduction Program

http://www.library.uow.edu.au/helptraining/workshops/ilip/

Acknowledgement Practice Plagiarism will not be tolerated

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/courserules/plagiarism.html

Student Academic Grievance Policy

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/cop_supervision.html#8

Special Consideration Policy

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/courserules/specialconsideration.html

Code of Practice-Honours

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/honourscode.html

Non-Discriminatory Language Practice and Presentation

http://staff.uow.edu.au/eeo/nondiscrimlanguage.html

Intellectual Property Policy

http://www.uow.edu.au/research/researchmanagement/1998IP.html

Occupational Health and Safety

http://staff.uow.edu.au/ohs/commitment/OHS039-ohspolicy.pdf

SISAT Internet Access & Student Resource Centre

http://www.sitacs.uow.edu.au/info/current/internet_access_and_resource.shtml

SISAT Computer Usage Rules

http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/info/current/support/labs/rules.shtml

SISAT Style Guide for Footnotes, Documentation, Essay and Report Writing

http://www.sitacs.uow.edu.au/info/current/styleguide.pdf

SISAT Student Guide

http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/info/current/regulations.shtml

Informatics Faculty Librarian, Ms Annette Meldrum, phone: 4221 4637,ameldrum@uow.edu.au

SISAT Subject Outlines

http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/info/current/subject_outlines/