Feedback

Email the unit coordinator, Rachel Cardell-Oliver Professor Rachel Cardell-Oliver (click for email) if you have any feedback or suggestions for resources that should be included here.

See CITS5206 Feedback and Changes for changes that have been made in recent years.

Software Recommendations for your Project

If you are using your own computer/laptop for this unit, you will likely already have many of the tools required for software development and group participation installed from your earlier units. The following tools are recommended.

You should add the unit coordinator to your project group areas and include hyperlinks to relevant sections in your assessment deliverables.

• GitHub (app or web based) for your team to store, manage, track and control changes to your project's software codebase.
• Trello for project management (boards, lists and cards for planning and managing your project). You can use a simple spreadsheet for this, or another project management tool, but Trello is recommended for beginners, is simple to use and free.
• Clockify for tracking your work hours on the project. Again, you can use a spreadsheet or other tools, but I recommend clockify because it is simple to use, free, integrates with Trello and GitHub and will automatically generate reports for your CITS5206 deliverables.
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of your choice for writing and testing code on your local computer
• Additional software tools as required for your specific project.

Writing Professional Reflections

Workshop notes on how to write professional reflections are available in the CITS5206 workshop guide Writing a Professional Reflection and also from these guides: UWA guide and similar guides from Monash and Melbourne universities.

Teaching and Learning Software

• Microsoft Teams (UWA CITS5206 team) for hosting your project group channel, meetings and ephemeral discussions.
• LMS (UWA CITS5206) for announcements and workshop recordings. Make sure you check your student email for LMS announcements because all official announcements for CITS5206 will be made via the unit LMS announcements channel.
• cssubmit for submission of all CITS5206 project deliverable and for feedback.
• csmarks for tracking your marks for CITS5206 assessments.
• Document preparation software of your choice (eg Word, Latex or Overleaf)
• STRIDE threat modelling framework (Learning module from Microsoft)

Reusing Code and Citing Code

You may also use code or other material from external sources, so long as you give proper attribution, as explained below. When you copy code from an external source, whether you are copying a snippet of code or an entire module, you must credit the source of that code. Even when you copy the code and adapt it, you should still credit the source. You were not the original developer of the code. [Source: MIT Guide to Citing Code Sources]

Use this guide for details of the expectations in CITS5206 for citing your code sources: MIT Guide to Citing Code Sources You should also acknowledge any software, documentation or any other material written with any generative AI tools including CodePilot or chatGTP.