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FIT2095

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 22 November 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

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Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

e-Business applications are now mostly developed for Web and mobile platforms. With the advent of mobile Web apps a set of technologies and techniques has emerged that are shared by both Web and mobile application development. This unit introduces, explains and uses these technologies and techniques to build basic but industrial strength e-Business applications. The topics covered will include: an overview of the current state-of-play in e-Business application development, HTML5 (the living standard), CSS3, object oriented JavaScript for large developments, JavaScript APIs, Ajax, JSON, XML and related W3C technologies, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, MVC, ASP.NET MVC, Angular JS. The appropriateness of these technologies in different contexts together with relevant best practice techniques for their use and integration will also be covered.

Outcomes

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

  1. describe the current technological options with respect to e-business application development and the most likely trends going forward;
  2. analyse and debug existing e-Business applications;
  3. design, code and test basic e-Business applications using current industrial strength techniques;
  4. describe and use some of the core APIs used in e-Business applications;
  5. apply good programming practices in accordance with industry standards and professional ethics.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

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

  • Two hours lectures
  • One hour tutorials
  • Two hours laboratories

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 2-3 hours of personal study per one hour of lecture time in order to satisfy the reading, tute, prac and assignment expectations.

See also Unit timetable information

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

Business information systems
IT for business
Mobile apps development
Software development
Web development

Prerequisites

FIT1051 or equivalent

Prohibitions

FIT2013, FIT3083