This unit forms part of the major in Business Information Systems in the Bachelor of Information Technology. For this major it is co-core with FIT2081.

01/10/2020 Admin: Update to include new assessment and teaching approach fields as per Handbook requirements.

4/5/2020: As the MSA course 4307 Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences is in teach-out, the MSA offering of this unit has been re-coded to FZA2095 effective Semester 2, 2020. These units will be managed by South Africa and therefore no separate Monatar entries will be made

20/9/2019: Admin - updating exam duration to include additional 10 minutes as per University requirement.

29/06/2018: Admin - amendment to Assessment removing the 30 minutes reading and noting time and reverting to the standard 10 minutes reading and noting time, as per FEC Email Meeting 1/18.

07/12/2017 - Updating prerequisites to include the new programming unit.

22/06/2017: Admin - adding Reasons for Change - Modified synopsis to expand the range of technologies that MAY be covered in any given delivery.

Feb 2017: Update prerequisites to add FIT1045 and FIT1048 as possible options after discussion with CE (Stephen Huxford).

Introduced for course architecture programs. Effective semester 1, 2016

It is based on the existing unit FIT3083 but updated to move from level 3 to level 2 as part of the Monash Course Architecture initiative for implementation in 2016.

This unit is a level 2 unit in the BIT-BIS major of the BIT degree and will be the second programming unit (after FIT1051) that students in this major will take. Other BIT students may also take this unit as an advanced programming unit. This unit deals with the technologies and techniques currently used by businesses in their customer and internal-facing applications (i.e. not B2B applications). These applications are now mostly Web and mobile applications. Conveniently from a study and development perspective a set of core technologies and techniques has emerged for developing both these types of applications. It's these technologies and techniques that are introduced, explained and used to develop applications in this unit.

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.

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Non-B2B 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 be selected from the following: 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, ECMAScript 2015 and beyond, Angular, TypeScript, React. The appropriateness of the selected technologies in different contexts, together with relevant best practice techniques for their use and integration will also be covered.

The following free and open source applications should be installed on the student's laptop

• Node.js
• MongoDB
• IDE: WebStorm or Visual Studio Code
• Git
• Chrome

Recommended resources

The following books and websites contain relevant and useful information and reference documentation:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W
• https://javascript.info/
• Book: Haviv, Amos Q.. MEAN Web Development (Kindle Location 905). Packt Publishing. Kindle Edition.
• Book: Node.js Blueprints
• Node.js Web Development: Server-side development with Node 10 made easy, 4th Edition, Kindle Edition
• Book: Angular 5: From Theory To Practice: Build the web applications of tomorrow using the new Angular web framework from Google.
• Book: Mastering MongoDB 4.x: Expert techniques to run high-volume and fault-tolerant database solutions using MongoDB 4.x, 2nd Edition

On-campus

Lecture and/or tutorials or problem classes

This teaching and learning approach helps students to initially encounter information via prescribed pre-reading materials, discuss, explore and be quizzed on the this information during a subsequent workshop (timetabled as a lecture), and put it into practice in a hands-on lab environment that is preceded by a lab preparation tutorial.

Examination (2 hours and 10 minutes): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

1. 11 Laboratory Assessments: 20% - ULO ?
2. 11 Workshop Quizzes: 10% - ULO ?
3. Pre-reading Quizzes: 10% - ULO ?
4. Examination: 60% - ULO ?

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Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

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

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

One of FIT1045, FIT1053, FIT1048 or FIT1051 or equivalent