FIT3104 - Chinese language information technology

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)
Clayton Term 4 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will cover a wide variety of techniques and computing systems developed for supporting business applications software systems in Chinese language. Specific topics include Chinese-enabling systems, Chinese character sets and encoding methods, Chinese character input methods, Chinese character output, and Chinese computing on the Internet. To enable students to understand the development of global software for all languages including Chinese, the principles and techniques for multilingual information processing, including universal character encoding methods will be discussed. The unit will be taught in English, but students need to have a good knowledge of written Chinese.

Assessment

Assignments: 30%
Examination (2 hours): 70%

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prohibitions

BUS3200