FEC 4/04 Reasons for Change Added Semester 2 offering for IMS1906 at Caulfield to cater for significant cohort of failed students in Semester 1. Also semester 2 offering in Malaysia added.

FEC 3/04 Reasons for Change Update of recommended reading and unit adviser

FEC 4/03 Reasons for Change Consistent with the Faculty's goal to rationalise the number of units being offered, GCO1810 will be taught at the Caulfield campus under its alias title IMS1906 Business Software Fundamentals, as a core 1st year unit in the Bachelor of Information Systems, as well as at Gippsland and Malaysia.

FEC 2/03 Reasons for Change GSCIT has proposed the introduction of the Bachelor of Information Technology to commence in 2004. This degree has 3 majors: System Development, Internet Technology and Business Systems. The first two have object-oriented programming in Java as a core requirement, however students in the latter will take GCO1810 to introduce them to the fundamentals of business programming. The proposed change of name is intended to remove ambiguity about the nature of the content of the unit from the students' perspective.Because the program will be taught in both Gippsland and Malaysia campuses, the location of offering is to be updated as well.

GCO1810 Business Programming is a core unit in only the Business Systems stream of the Bachelor of Information Technology, in which it is a pre-requisite for the following units:

• GCO2812 Computer Organisation
• GCO2815 Database Management Systems

GCO1810 is also taught at Caulfield under the alias IMS1906 Business Software Fundamentals, as a core 1st year unit in the Bachelor of Information Systems

Prescribed Texts

• Zak, D., "Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Reloaded", 2004, Thomson Learning, ISBN 0-619-21565-8
• Robertson, L. A., "Simple Program Design", 4th Edition, 2003, Thomson Learning, ISBN 0-17-010704-3

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• Software Title: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003
• Vendor: Microsoft
• Version: 2003 (or 2005)
• OS: MS Windows XP
• License Details: I believe there is an agreement between Monash and Microsoft.
• Are we currently licensed: Yes
• If (Yes), who is the contact person for this software?:
• The software is to be installed and accessed from a: Client/Workstation
• Type of license: Site License
• In what week will you commence using the software in class? Semester 1 (Week 1)
• Nominated Staff For Acceptance Testing Software: Shane Moore (for 2005)

GCO1810 - Gippsland School of Computing and IT 100%

IMS1906 - GSCIT %, SCSSE % to be advised