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FIT1008

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 23 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Malaysia

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to core problem-solving, analytical skills, and methodologies useful for developing flexible, robust, and maintainable software. In doing this it covers a range of conceptual levels, from high-level algorithms and data-structures, down to the machine models and simple assembly language programming. Topics include data types; data structures; algorithms; algorithmic complexity; recursion; and translation to assembly language.

Outcomes

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

  1. translate simple problem statements into algorithms and implement them in a high level programming language;
  2. summarise and compare the properties of basic abstract data types such as stacks, queues, lists, trees, priority queues, heaps and hash tables;
  3. evaluate different algorithms and implementations of basic abstract data types;
  4. analyse algorithms by determining their best case and worst case big O time complexity;
  5. deconstruct simple high-level code into assembly code such as MIPS R2000.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 70%; In-semester assessment: 30% (Semester 1)
Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40% (Semester 2)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Three hours of lectures
  • One 1-hour tutorial
  • One 3-hour laboratory

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 5 hours of personal study per week in order to satisfy the reading and assignment expectations.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Julian Garcia

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Computer science

Prerequisites

((One of FIT1040, ECE2071, FIT1002) and FIT1029) or FIT1045
Students beginning FIT1008 are assumed to be able to: Identify the main components of an algorithm (variables, operators, expressions, etc), and write the algorithm associated to the specification of a simple problem. Be able to translate a simple algorithm into a program containing variable declarations, selection, repetition, and lists and/or arrays.

Prohibitions

CSE1303, CSC1030, FIT1015, FIT2085

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/