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Required Resources

You will need access to:

  • Visual Studio .NET 2008 or 2010 (2010 is preferred).
  • Microsoft Visio or similar modelling/graphical documentation tools.
  • Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome browser

These may be accessed at no cost in the Monash campus computer laboratories where this subject is taught.

Unit Schedule

Week Date* Activities Assessment
0 21/02/11   No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0
1 28/02/11 FIT5041 Introduction  
2 07/03/11 Distributed Systems  
3 14/03/11 .NET Overview  
4 21/03/11 .NET Remoting Written Assignment 1 Due Friday, 25 March 2011
5 28/03/11 Component Programming  
6 04/04/11 XML Technology  
7 11/04/11 .NET Web Services Practical Assignment 1 Due Friday, 15 April 2011
8 18/04/11 ASP.NET Web Form and MVC  
Mid semester break
9 02/05/11 Interoperability with .NET  
10 09/05/11 .NET WCF Services Written Assignment 2 Due Friday, 13 May 2011
11 16/05/11 Enterprise Web Application Design Presentation in tutorials (Week 11 & 12)
12 23/05/11 Overview and future with Cloud Computing Last lecture for this semester. Practical Assignment 2 Due Friday, 27 May 2011
  30/05/11    

*Please note that these dates may only apply to Australian campuses of Monash University. Off-shore students need to check the dates with their unit leader.

Assessment Policy

To pass a unit which includes an examination as part of the assessment a student must obtain:

  • 40% or more in the unit's examination, and
  • 40% or more in the unit's total non-examination assessment, and
  • an overall unit mark of 50% or more.

If a student does not achieve 40% or more in the unit examination or the unit non-examination total assessment, and the total mark for the unit is greater than 50% then a mark of no greater than 49-N will be recorded for the unit

Assessment Tasks

Participation

  • Assessment task 1
    Title:
    First Written Assignment
    Description:
    To help develop the skills necessary to produce high quality academic research papers.
    Specifically, students should concentrate on:
    • Finding high quality papers
    • Reading and understanding their contents
    • Paraphrasing and referencing them correctly
    • Adding your own views in a constructive way
    Students can choose the topics. Avoid simplistic topics. Discuss topic with tutors as soon as possible

    Minimum of 2000 words
    Weighting:
    15%
    Criteria for assessment:
    • This is an individual assignment and is to be entirely your own work.
    • Submission will be in both electronic and paper submission to the tutor or Caulfield School of IT office (building H level 6), and plus an online submission via Moodle.
    • The assignment will be marked against criteria of correctness and clarity.
    • Further detailed assessment criteria will be available with the assignment specification.
    Due date:
    Week 4, Friday, 25 March 2011, 12 pm
  • Assessment task 2
    Title:
    First Practical Assignment
    Description:
    • Gives students an opportunity to build a distributed application
    • To demonstrate aspects of a distributed system via the implementation of a real-life working applications
    • Basis for the Second Practical Assignment
    • Students can choose the application
    • Development Platform and Middleware: .NET Remoting is recommended and supported.
    • Discuss with tutor what is required to achieve each different grade level.
    Weighting:
    25%
    Criteria for assessment:
    • This is an individual assignment and is to be entirely your own work.
    • Submission will be in both electronic and paper submission to the tutor or Caulfield School of IT office (building H level 6), and plus an online submission via Moodle.
    • The assignment will be marked against criteria of correctness and clarity.
    • Further detailed assessment criteria will be available with the assignment specification.
    Due date:
    Week 7, Friday, 15 April 2011, 12 pm
  • Assessment task 3
    Title:
    Second Written Assignment
    Description:
    • Allow students to research and report in-depth on a specific issue relating to distributed and component technologies.
    • A higher marking standard will be applied to this written assignment.
    • Students must choose a topic found on the web site.
    • Students must register the topic choice with the tutor.
    • Minimum of 3500 words.
    • A 15 minute presentation is also required.
    Weighting:
    25%
    Criteria for assessment:
    • This is an individual assignment and is to be entirely your own work.
    • Submission will be in both electronic and paper submission to the tutor or Caulfield School of IT office (building H level 6), and plus an online submission via Moodle.
    • The assignment will be marked against criteria of correctness and clarity.
    • Further detailed assessment criteria will be available with the assignment specification.
    Due date:
    Week 10, Friday, 13 May 2011, 12 pm
    Remarks:
    Worth 25% of the subject's marks, comprises of 15% from the research paper & 10% from the presentation
  • Assessment task 4
    Title:
    Second Practical Assignment
    Description:
    • Gives students an opportunity to build on their existing distributed application
    • Apply XML web service technologies to their distributed application
    • Development Platform and Middleware: .NET Web Services is recommended and supported.
    Weighting:
    25%
    Criteria for assessment:
    • This is an individual assignment and is to be entirely your own work.
    • Submission will be in both electronic and paper submission to the tutor or Caulfield School of IT office (building H level 6), and plus an online submission via Moodle.
    • The assignment will be marked against criteria of correctness and clarity.
    • Further detailed assessment criteria will be available with the assignment specification.
    Due date:
    Week 12, Friday, 27 May 2011, 12 pm
  • Assessment task 5
    Title:
    Tutorial Attendance and Participation
    Description:
    You need to attend the weekly tutorials and complete the assigned tutorial exercises
    Weighting:
    10%
    Criteria for assessment:
    • Attendance.
    • Completion of tutorial exercises.
    • Participation in discussions.
    Due date:
    End of semester

Examinations

Assignment submission

Assignment coversheets are available via "Student Forms" on the Faculty website: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/forms/

You MUST submit a completed coversheet with all assignments, ensuring that the plagiarism declaration section is signed.

Extensions and penalties

Submission must be made by the due date otherwise penalties will be enforced.

You must negotiate any extensions formally with your campus unit leader via the in-semester special consideration process: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/equity/special-consideration.html.

Returning assignments

Students can expect assignments to be returned within two weeks of the submission date or after receipt, whichever is later

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