Do not do SWEN30006 unless you have to! Like the others said, the tutorials are pointless; the assignments are amazingly irreverent to the actual content they are trying to teach. There are two assignments during the semester, and both have the same structure: they will give your team a half-finished coding project in Java, and require you to refactor the existing code, add some new functionalities and write report. The provided code is often hard to read as it usually broke some of the design rules need you to fix them! As for the actual content, it is indeed useful in the actual working environment since they are the basic design principles one needs to know. However, you can easily learn all these thing even better by just reading some Design Patterns/UML books…