INFO125-11S1 (C) Semester One 2011

Introduction to Programming with Databases

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2011
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2011

Description

Analysis of business environments to define user requirements; introduction to programming and database concepts; development of simple applications using VB.net and Microsoft Visual Studio.

Learning Outcomes

  • By the end of this course the student should be able to:
  • Analyse business environments to define user requirements
  • Discuss the steps in developing an application in Visual Basic.NET.
  • Understand the basic concepts of programming, problem solving and design techniques
  • Understand the Visual Studio environment and use its functionality to develop simple business applications
  • Understand the concepts of object-oriented programming in Windows and Visual Basic.NET
  • Understand how databases are used to store business data.
  • Describe the parts of a database and understand database operations.
  • Access and manipulate data from applications.
  • Protect applications from unauthorised access
  • Gain hands-on development experience through a series of tutorial exercises.

Restrictions

ACIS125, AFIS125

Course Coordinator

Nelly Todorova

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Final Exam 50%
Homework assignment 20%
Mini test 2 15%
Mini-test 1 15%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Tony Gaddis and Kip Irvine; Starting out with Visual Basic 2008 ; Updated 4th Edition; Pearson, 2010.

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Course outline

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $652.00

International fee $3,075.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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