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IS122 - Information Systems II

This document provides information about the IS122 - Information Systems II course. It outlines that Dinesh Kumar is the coordinator and lectures for the course. It is compulsory for certain programs and a prerequisite for other courses. Lecture times and modes of delivery are specified. The course focuses on problem solving and implementing solutions using Visual Basic.NET. Assessment includes assignments, exams, and laboratory performance. Study materials and expectations for success and failure are discussed. Support channels and rationale for the programming language are also mentioned.

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IS122 - Information Systems II

This document provides information about the IS122 - Information Systems II course. It outlines that Dinesh Kumar is the coordinator and lectures for the course. It is compulsory for certain programs and a prerequisite for other courses. Lecture times and modes of delivery are specified. The course focuses on problem solving and implementing solutions using Visual Basic.NET. Assessment includes assignments, exams, and laboratory performance. Study materials and expectations for success and failure are discussed. Support channels and rationale for the programming language are also mentioned.

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IS122 - Information Systems II

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Coordinator and Lecturer:
• Dinesh Kumar,
• Room: A11, Level 4, Building B,
Japan-Pacific ICT Center.
• Ph: 323 2623,
• Email: [email protected]

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• Who should do this course?
• Pre-requisites: IS121
• Status:
• Compulsory for Certificate/Diploma/Degree
program in IS
• Pre-requisite for IS221 in absence of CS112
• Pre-requisite for IS222

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Lecture Times

• Tuesday 4 pm – 092-003
• Wednesday 11am – 018-001 (U8)
• Friday 2 pm – 018-001 (U8)

(the lecture times quoted here are for Face–to–Face students only)

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Mode
• F2F – for Laucala Students only
• Online – for Regional students (non-laucala)

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What is this course about?
• Problems … and more problems.
• Their solution(s) …
• Implementation
• A new language – Visual Basic.net (2015)
• The “Course Outline” highlights the ‘Learning
Outcomes’ and ‘Course Content’. Please read
this very carefully.

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Study Materials:
• Textbook:
• Hoisington, Microsoft Visual Basic
2015 for Windows, Web, Windows
Store and Database Applications
(Comprehensive), Course
Technology, ISBN
9781285856896

• Course Lecture notes will be


made available on Moodle.

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Study Materials: (pre-2016)
These books were used during
semesters prior to 2016. If you’ve got
them, you can use them.

• Textbooks:
• Hoisington, Microsoft Visual Basic 2012 for
Windows, Web, Office and Database
Applications (Comprehensive), Course
Technology, ISBN 9781285197975

• Shelly & Hoisington, Microsoft Visual Basic


2010 for Windows, Web, Office and Database
Applications (Comprehensive), Course
Technology, ISBN 9781285197975

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Course Assessment
• Continuous Assessment: 50%
• Laboratory performance 10%
• Mid-Semester Exam: 10%
• Assignments 30%
(Assign 1:15%)
(Assign 2:15%)
(Check out the course schedule in Moodle and course
outline for expected dedalines)

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Course Assessment

• Final Examination: 50%


• Min. pass mark: 40% (20/50)

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Activites:
• Practicals:
• 2 hours/week
• Will required you to prepare, show up, and work
steadily for entire time.
• Will consist of small to complex programming
exercises to give you hands on experience on the
concepts we will learn in class.
• Will start in week 2
• Attendance is compulsory

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Activites:
• Practicals:
• Log into Moodle to sign-up.
• Everyone has to sign-up
• Lab times are available in Moodle.
• Deadline to sign-up 22 July @5pm.
• Labs with very few students will be cancelled.

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Moodle
• This course will make extensive use of Moodle, a
course management system that allows you to read
course notes, hand in assignments, read
discussions, write emails, and lots of other cool
stuff
• http://elearn.usp.ac.fj

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How to succeed?

• This is a difficult course. Look around you.

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How to fail?
• Don’t attend lectures/practicals or miss most of them.
• Attend lectures but don’t pay attention in class.
• Don’t do prep-work before coming to labs.
• Come to labs with your friends lab solution.
• Don’t keep up with the required readings for the
course.
• Don’t do or do very less practical on your own.
• Over-work; do others assignments/labs.

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How to fail?
• Do your assignments but submit your friends.
• Think this is an easy course.
• Want to do this course only to get a pass.
• Think I am evil.
• Think I am compassionate.

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How to succeed?

• Here’s the amount of time I would suggest you to


spend on IS122 alone.

• 3 hours lecture + 2 hours practical + 4 hours


additional programming + 6 hours studying = 15
hours/week!

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Support Channels?

• Tutors
• Moodle discussions, mails and Chat
• Emails
• Face-to-face QA (On-campus students)
• Telephone

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Why VB .NET/2015?

• Well we’ll talk about this later.

Good luck and have fun in this course!

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Questions

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