Programming for business applications
Associate Professor R J Bignall and Ms K Styles
6 points * 4 hours per week * First semester * Gippsland/Distance * Corequisite: GCO1851 or GCO1815 *Prohibitions: GCO1811, BUS1010, CSC1011, SFT1101
Objectives The subject aims to enable students to design and produce small application programs suitable for use in a business environment; use a modern programming environment and tools to develop and maintain a business application and evaluate and review business application software.
Synopsis Programming language generations and their characteristics; algorithms and computer programs; program development in a visual programming environment, user interface and screen design, input and output design, data types, arrays, record types, files; data hiding, procedures and parameters; objects and methods, event driven programs, menus; programs documentation; software quality and software evaluation. For distance education students there is provision for additional student contact through electronic mail and newsgroups.
Assessment Two assignments: 30% * Examination: 70%
Prescribed texts
Schneider, D E An introduction to programming using visual basic Prentice-Hall, 1995
Robertson, L A A simple program design 2nd edn, Nelson, 1994
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