Semester 1 Reflection

Communication for IT Professtionals
Grade Avarage: approx 75%
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Information Systems
Objective
- Understand how IS are used in business to support the work that ppl do
- Apply problem identification skills to define info. requirement and analyze business processes
-Employ concepts of stakeholder participation, usability evaluation, work flow modelling and design, and collaborative work practices in IS design
-Explain basic theories of teams and work in a team to create a product
Appriciate that there are diff. system development methodologies and contrast the life-cycle and prototyping approaches
-Use report writing and presentation skills effectively
-Demonstrate continued and self-reflective learning
Topics:
The Role of ISs in Organisations
- How organisation operate and how ISs support their operation and add value
- Management and operations and their respective info. needs
- Business processes and work flows and how these can be modeled
- Technologies used in information systems
Information systems and people
-Stakeholder, users and their needs
- Usability evaluation
- Systems to support collaboration and knowledege sharing
- Theories and practices of team work
System Development
- Systems development life cycle
- Prototyping
-Analysing user needs and specifying requirements
- Design approaches
Learning and Info. Systems
- Setting and IS
-Using ISs for learning
Grade Avarage: approx 65%
Comment:
- Team Performance: Lack of communication between team member, often put off work and not plan well for assignment-> contact tutor or lecture one week before ass. due
- Presentation : not speak clearly, not planning well before giving speech
- Writing assessment: don't know how to write a report properly
- Multiple choice: not focusing on keywords.--> Improve reading and take note


Web Systems
Objective:
- Explain the role of OS, and manipulate its structure such as processes, file systems and memory management using Unix based scripting
- Describe and make use of distributed applications on the internet
- Identify and explain the role and function of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and their components
- Design and implement a website
- Identify and explain the role and function of the main components of a computers
Topic:
Operating System ( focusing on Unix)
- file systems and file manipulation
- scripting and regular expressions
- processes, threads, piping and redirections
-memory and process management
The web and Human Interaction
- web page development
- the Web, web services, Human Interface and Human interaction
- web services definition and description
The Internet and the web
- The internet infrastructure and components ( Routers and TCP/IP protocol suite)
- The web and its components( web sever, web browsers, search engines)
-Client-sever network interaction
Computing theory
-Representation og info. -binary, ASCII, Unicode
-Processing and storage of information
-Coding paradigms - assembler, complier, interpreter
Comment:
- Unix skill is still not sufficient--> practice regularly
- Web design not sufficient --> cant create my own website --> suck!

Grade Avarage: 82.5%
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Programming Fundamentals
Grade Avarage: approx: 95%
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