This unit was developed as part of the Bachelor of Information Technology implementation in 2015, as a replacement for FIT2076. It is a core unit in the Software Development major.

May 2021: Update to include FIT3171 as an alternative prerequisite to FIT2094 (they're co-taught units with the same content), Removed Malaysian offer (not longer valid), and added the current lecturer of the unit as secondary contact

02/10/2020 Admin: Update to include new assessment and teaching approach fields as per Handbook requirements.

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

AUG 2017: AUG 2017: Update of prerequisites as discussed at UGPC to remove FIT1040.

12/06/2017: Admin - updating location of offering to reflect actual campus offerings at the ADE's request.

29/05/2017: Exam duration updated in line with Faculty policy

27 October 2016: Admin - removing the word 'or' from the prerequisite change as per UGPC 5/16 (Item 8.1).

October 2016: Correction to prerequisites to add programming units back in for transition students.

October 2016: Added FIT1004 as an alternate prerequisite for students enrolled in pre-2016 courses. Discussed with Janet Fraser.

Introduced for course architecture programs. Effective semester 1, 2016

As a core unit in the Software Development major, this unit aims to teach students the basic concepts and key skills required to design and build applications, which promote an interface between a web site and a back-end database. The widespread and rapidly expanding use of web pages as an interface for online systems has made knowledge of this area of technology. This unit will be largely based on, and replace, FIT2076 which is a core unit in the Applications Development major of the Bachelor of Information Technology & Systems.

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

1. explain the need and importance for application developers to have skills in this area of IT applications;
2. describe and compare the key basic technologies which underly the development of web database applications;
3. evaluate and assess the key technological issues confronting developers when building applications of this type;
4. implement the key features of programming languages which are commonly used for developing web database applications;
5. analyse, design, develop and implement a web database application using a commonly used programming language;
6. evaluate and critique proposed web database solutions to a business problem.

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This unit provides students with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to analyse a business problems and develop a solution that uses a web interface to a back-end database. The unit assumes a sound basic knowledge of programming and database concepts and skills as developed in the introductory units in these areas. The emphasis in the unit is on mastery of the key concepts and the basic knowledge and skills required to build this kind of application. The unit will provide students with an awareness of the wide range of technologies that are used to support this kind of application, but will examine only a limited number of these technologies to demonstrate the key concepts and their application.

The unit will take a strongly practical focus in examining the technology issues involved, and highlight the key issues which a developer needs to address in developing applications of this kind for real-world systems.

On-campus

Examination (2 hours and 10 minutes): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

1. Requirements Analysis & Initial Design : 15% - ULO 1, 2, 3, 6
2. Application Development and Implementation : 25% - ULO 3, 4, 5
3. Construction CakePHP: 10% - ULO 2, 4, 5, 6
4. Examination: 50% - ULO 1, 2, 3, 5

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

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

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

(one of FIT2094, FIT3171) or ((one of FIT1002, FIT1008, FIT1035, FIT2034, FIT2071, FIT2081) and FIT1004)