SIT331 - Full Stack Development: Secure Backend Services
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Maksym Slavnenko |
| Prerequisite: | SIT103 and SIT232 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 3 hour seminar per week, weekly meetings. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week, weekly meetings. |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
Web technologies are now commonly used to be used to create full applications for traditional desktop, web and mobile devices. Web technologies provide better cross platform support and a more streamlined and consistent application development process. The full web technologies stack includes frontend, backend server, service APIs and databases. Full stack web development involves the use of a full suite of technologies to build the application frontend, backend and supporting infrastructure. A full stack web developer will use contemporary web development tools and frameworks, version control, and modern deployment approaches to create effective and impressive applications. This unit focuses on the backend technologies for the full stack development, including programming service APIs, creating databases and cloud deployment.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Research full stack development technologies and best practices and apply resulting learning to application development associated with back-end technologies. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Develop the backend part of full stack-based applications that include frontend, backend server, service APIs and databases. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Establish and evaluate continuous delivery infrastructure that supports web application development, testing and deployment. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Clearly articulate, solution structures and associated technologies and processes to a range of technical and non-technical audiences. | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO5 | Effectively regulate and reflect upon learning achieved and present compelling evidence of learning achieved. | GLO6: Self-management |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learning portfolio | Portfolio consisting of programming code, presentations, and reports | 100% | Week 12 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirement
To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must meet certain milestones as part of the portfolio.
Learning resource
There is no prescribed text.
The texts and reading list for SIT331 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
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