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FIT5140

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 22 December 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

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Caulfield

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit focuses theoretical concepts, applications and research issues of mobile software. Students will learn techniques to design and develop mobile applications. A number of different toolkits/development environments will be discussed and used for the practical component of the unit. Interaction between mobile applications and other systems such as sensor networks or web systems will also be explored.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. describe the principles and theoretical concepts of mobile software systems;
  2. explain different mobile systems toolkits and development environments;
  3. utilise techniques for developing mobile applications;
  4. develop mobile applications;
  5. integrate mobile applications with other systems, such as sensor network systems or web systems.

Assessment

In-semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

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

  • Two hours of lectures
  • One 2-hour tutorial

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 8 hours independent study per week for completing tutorial and project work, private study and revision.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Pari Delir Haghighi

Prerequisites

FIT5046

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

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