Prerequisites: INFO2120.

Prohibition: EBUS3003, EBUS3001.

Offered: Semester 1

Classes: 1 hour lecture and 3 hour Labs each week.

Assessment: Project Specification Document worth 40%, Project Prototype (website) worth 10% and Final Exam worth 50%.

The unit focuses on the aspects of analysis, project specification, design, and prototype that lead up to the actual build of a website or application.

Topics include:

• technology fundamentals,
  
• business models (B2C, B2B and B2E systems),
  
• development methodologies, including writing use cases and UML diagrams), the Project Proposal and Project Specification Document,
  
• prototyping approaches: Ruby on Rails and WebRatio
  
• Other qauality factors: Information Architecture, Fundamentals of HCI and User-Centred Design, legal issues, and standards-based web development.
  

Students build a simple use-case based e-business website prototype with web standards. A final presentation of the analysis, design and prototype are presented in a role play environment where students try to win funding from a venture capitalist.
An understanding of these pre-production fundamentals is critical for future IT and Software Engineering Consultants, Project Managers, Analysts and CTO´s.

Specific topics covered include

• Electronic Commerce Technology Fundamentals
  
• The e-project
  
• Prototyping with Ruby on Rails and WebRatio
  
• B2C, B2B and B2E systems.
  

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