Advanced Programming Fundamentals

Course aim

Students can apply the principles of object oriented software development to the translation of a problem description into a robust object oriented program. This course aims to be an extended version of Programming Fundamentals, with some material covered in greater depth, a greater emphasis placed on the links between the course materials and research, and the assessment set at a higher level.

Course content

The programming Environment; integrated development environments, commenting and the JavaDoc tool; the Java API.
Problem Solving.
Object Concepts and Class Design (encapsulation, abstraction, constructors’ methods, attributes, relationships, static). Object Oriented approaches to program design and development.
Testing: Testing Strategies; Unit Testing; Proving a Program Works; Testing tools including JUnit, Pre- and Post-Conditions, Assertions; Debugging strategies
Inheritance; Interfaces and Abstract classes; Polymorphism; Use of Inheritance in advanced data structures; Exceptions and exception handling.
Refactoring and Maintenance; Configuration Management.
Arrays; Simple arrays; Multi-Dimensional Arrays; Searching on Arrays (Linear searching and Intro to Binary searching);Sorting Arrays
Input and Output

Textbook(s)

Savitch, Walter J 2008, Absolute Java, Addison Wesley, Sydney

Prerequisite(s)

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Assignment 1, Assignment 2, Continuous assessment from workshops, Practical examination

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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