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Unit of Study CSC10214 - Interactive Multimedia Application Development I (2014)

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  • Enrolment information

    It is strongly recommended that you have fundamental knowledge in programming concepts as contained in CSC00235 - Applications Development, [ISY00245] Principles of Programming], or similar.

Unit description

With the increased demand for quality multimedia products for internet delivery, this unit extends the skills of students to incorporate standard software design and development techniques to the production of interactive multimedia applications. Students will create multimedia products through applying worked examples to project-based approaches of teaching and learning.

Unit content

Topic 1: Design and development
Topic 2: Graphics and animation
Topic 3: Text and other media
Topic 4: Navigation
Topic 5: Building interactivity
Topic 6: Scripting
Topic 7: Object-oriented structure
Topic 8: Decisions and loops
Topic 9: Debugging
Topic 10: States
Topic 11: Modularity
Topic 12: Presenting your work

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 1 Session 1
Gold Coast Session 1 Session 1
Online Session 1,  3 N/A
Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby N/A Session 1

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 generate flowcharts, storyboards and pseudo-code for interactive multimedia applications
2 implement and document standard assignment, logical and control expressions in creating interactive multimedia applications
3 design and develop intuitive, user-friendly interactions and navigation for interactive multimedia applications
4 create an interactive multimedia application using an appropriate development tool.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. generate flowcharts, storyboards and pseudo-code for interactive multimedia applications
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. implement and document standard assignment, logical and control expressions in creating interactive multimedia applications
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  3. design and develop intuitive, user-friendly interactions and navigation for interactive multimedia applications
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  4. create an interactive multimedia application using an appropriate development tool.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:

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