Monash University Handbook 2011 Undergraduate - Unit

FIT2076 - Web-database interface

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered	Caulfield Second semester 2011 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to develop an application system which uses a web interface to a back-end database. The unit assumes a sound basic knowledge of programming and database concepts and skills as developed in the introductory units in these areas (FIT1002 and FIT1004). The emphasis in the unit is on mastery of the key concepts and the basic knowledge and skills required to build this kind of application. The unit will provide students with an awareness of the wide range of technologies which are used to support this kind of application, but will examine only a limited number of these technologies to demonstrate the key concepts and their application.

The unit will take a strongly practical focus in examining the technology issues involved, and highlight the key issues which a developer needs to address in developing applications of this kind for real-world systems.

Objectives

At the completion of this unit, students will be able to:

understand the need and importance for system developers to have skills in this area of IT applications;
know the key basic technologies which underlie the development of web-database applications;
understand the key technological issues confronting developers building applications of this type;
know the key features of programming languages which are commonly used for developing web-database application;
develop a typical web-database interface using a well-known programming language.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

Chief examiner(s)

Ms Janet Fraser

Contact hours

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk