To develop skill in systems and software design with particular reference to the design of multimedia applications.

A theoretical and practical understanding of usability. Specifically, to develop highly usable applications, to test the usability of applications and to analyse applications from a user perspective.

The Theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to design, develop, and deploy mobile computing applications.

Background knowledge and technical skills required to understand the design process and to implement web designs using web development tools and techniques.

To critically analyze emerging issues in digital media production, evaluate current debates, media products and trends and develop informed opinions through a series of presentations and dynamic debates. Develop research and writing skills required to complete a degree level project and to write research papers.

The opportunity to assimilate their knowledge and skills in computing and multimedia, to research a particular area of multimedia or computing and to produce a computer-based multimedia system; to develop students’ ability to plan, implement and test a system within realistic time constraints; and to develop their ability to reflect critically on methodology and outcome

Web development has progressed significantly since the early day of static pages written in HTML and basic dynamic pages of PERL. As the internet has developed so have the demands of web developers. In the past year or two, a method of developing for the web using frameworks has arrived.Frameworks have the ability to increase productivity of web development significantly by providing scaffolding which can automatically construct some of the models and views needed for a website.
To illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of using frameworks to create web applications, blogs have been developed in both CakePHP and Ruby on Rails for this project. These are two of the most popular open source frameworks, both of which utilise the Model View Controller (MVC) architectural pattern. Developing the blogs has also allowed comparisons to be made between CakePHP and Ruby on Rails.

The knowledge and skills required to understand the building blocks of a computer system, the network it operates in, and how it communicates with other networks.
To provide a roadmap of computer science and engineering; introducing terminology and placing each component of an information system in an overall context.

Introduction to and overview of the Internet, including consideration of the role of the Internet in educational, business, research and recreational domains.

A foundation in the techniques of problem analysis and computer programming, and to ‘best practice’ in developing and documenting programmed solutions.

The principles and practices of producing multimedia projects combining text and graphics with audio and video clips.

Develop the student’s skills in development of digital assets for multimedia production and introduce the theoretical foundations relevant to digital media production.

An introduction to the mathematical, conceptual and graphical skills needed to represent, model and animate data and phenomena, using the appropriate computer modelling tools. To provide a foundation in the techniques of programming in the above areas.

To increase awareness of a range of legal and ethical issues in the multimedia and to develop business skills and apply this ability in debate and presentation.

A comprehensive overview of computer platforms from the theoretical and applied perspectives.

To extend students’ development and implementation skills acquired in earlier programming modules, concentrating on internet and database programming.
Develop students’ skills in developing dynamic web applications, using web programming technologies such as Java Server Pages, Java Servlets and JDBC.

To develop students business, communication and presentation skills.
To advance students experiences of team work and management.
To ensure students acquire the knowledge necessary to develop and maintain software engineering projects using the formal framework.
To ensure students acquire the necessary skills to manage a medium sized software engineering project.

To develop scripting and programming skills so as to enable the development of interactive multimedia applications using standard multimedia applications such as Macromedia Director and Flash.

To further develop the student’s skills in media techniques and to understand the theory and practice involved in group work.

To further develop the student’s mathematical, conceptual and graphical skills needed to represent, model and animate data and phenomena – using the appropriate computer modelling tools.
To advance the student’s programming skills in the above areas.

An understanding of how computer networks and the Internet work and how network applications are designed and implemented.

Improve programming and design skills, and advanced object-oriented programming techniques.

Improve software design and programming skills with particular reference to the development of multimedia applications using multimedia authoring tools and scripting languages.

Firm foundation in the principles, design and management of database management systems.

An understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation, emphasising the role of the entrepreneur in the digital media industries. The knowledge and skills to set up and manage a small business within the digital media sector.

The opportunity to assimilate their knowledge and skills in computing, multimedia and modelling and to apply that knowledge in the development of a multimedia application at a level approaching that of their aspirational working environment.

Predictoball is a football based online community game. Users can connect with friends, create and compete in leagues. Users predict the results of upcoming football games, then each week they compete with a randomly chosen opponent from their league in an attempt to rise higher in the leaderboards. Every user has their own customisable page and can visit and leave comments on other users pages. Registered users are notified automatically by mail when the results for the current week have been uploaded.
This site was primarily developed using Ruby on Rails and SQL. Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that has been growing in popularity in recent years.