Required texts

There is no mandatory texbook.

Enough information will be provided on or linked from  the web sites to complete the course to a satisfactory standard.

The unit convenor recomends that students weak or needing additional support in learning programming obtain and read the following book/e-book:

C Programming in One Hour a Day, Sams Teach Yourself, Seventh Edition
by Dean Miller, Peter Aitken, Bradley L. Jones
Publisher: Sams  

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Marked Tutorial 1 is by demonstartion in your tutorial

Marked Tutorial 2 is by demonstartion in your tutorial

Main Assignment - to be submitted on moodle

The late penalties for MT1 and MT2 assignments vary from those normally applied by the 麻豆视频 - specifically some late re-submissions are permitted, see the relevent assignment documentation and moodle page for details.

Special assessment requirements

NOTE1: The final exam is marked out of 100 (it will later be scaled to be out of 60 for accumulation in the aggregate mark), in order to pass the unit the student must get a grade of 50% or more in the final exam and get a grade of 50% or more for the unit in total. If the student fails the exam (i.e. gets less than 50%) then the exam mark will be the students mark for the entire unit.

NOTE2: If the student passes the final exam their mark for the unit will be the sum of the four assesment items MT1, MT2, Assignment and Exam.  

NOTE3: The lecturer/moderator reserves the right to increase a student's mark for academic merit. This is done rarely but can be done for: consistency, elegance, forum participation or creativity.  

NOTE4: If a students behaviour could possibly be interpreted as plagiarism, but there is some doubt they will be advised by the unit convener to modify their behaviour.

NOTE5: If the lecturer feels a student is guilty of deliberate unambigous plagarism, the students details and the palgarism details will be passed to the ADE (Assistant Dean Academic) for assesment. Students are refered the the 麻豆视频 policy on plagarism in this case.

Supplementary assessment

Supplementary assessment is not offered in this unit unless required by the relevant 麻豆视频 policy.

In order to pass the unit the student must get a grade of 50% or more in the exam. If the student fails the final exam (i.e. gets less than 50%) then the exam mark will be the students mark for the entire unit.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

Expected Average Student Workload:    

a)      Lectures (on campus or online):                                                    = 24h

b)      Tutorials / Computer labs:                                     12 x 1h             = 12h

c)      Accessing on line content and web:                                                = 15h

d)      Preparation (lectures, tutorials, computer labs)       12 x 2h             = 24h

e)    Marked Tutorial 1                                                                        = 10h

f)      Marked Tutorial 2                                                                          = 10h

g)      Main Assignment                                                                          =   25h

h)        Final Exam (incl. preparation)                                                      =   30h

Total                                                                                                    150 hours

Participation requirements

Your participation in lectures and tutorial activities will enhance your understanding of the unit content and therefore the quality of your assessment responses. Lack of participation may result in your inability to satisfactorily pass assessment items. Experience has shown that students who do not attend classes, have difficulty passing the unit.

Students should also be aware that the subject will be examined on material covered in all classes, including lectures and tutorials.. It is the individual student's responsibility to ensure that they are sufficiently familiar with this material.  Attendance at classes is one of the best ways of ensuring this familiarity.  While some of the lecture notes and course materials are available online, these are intended to be broad outlines of the lectures.  Do not make the mistake of assuming that the materials perfectly substitute for class attendance and participation.

Required IT skills

Ability to operate a computer (i.e., log in, find and run programs).

In-unit costs

There are no specific additional costs, however students are expected to provide 2 USB solid state storage devices to back up their assignment and tutorial work. The space requirement is less than 1 GB

Work placement, internships or practicums

Not Applicable

Additional information

Students are responsible for ensuring they have a suitable number of USB flash drives to ensure the safe backup of their assignment and tutorial material. I recommend two flash drives each with 500MB allocated to this subject.