Related Course/s:

An elective unit of study in the  Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (Network Design and Security),  and Bachelor of Science (Professional Software Development).

Aims & Objectives:

• Competently use Swing to program the user interface of Java applications.
• Explain the architectural and performance issues of programming in Java.
• Use threads, collections, graphics 2D and J2ME API's.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures (24 hrs), Tutorial (Lab)  (12 hrs)

Assessment:

Assignments, Examinations

Generic Skills Outcomes:

The graduate attributes which relate to this unit of study help to produce graduates who:

• Are capable in their chosen professional areas.
• Are entrepreneurial.

Content:

• Swing introduction/revision
• Advanced Swing
• Graphics2D
• Java IDE, JUnit and Ant
• Java features: generic collections, serialization, assertions
• Threads
• The JVM, Performance and Memory Management
• Selected topics, eg 3D Graphics, J2ME, security (varies from year to year).

Reading Materials:

Horstmann & Cornell, Core Java 2, Vol. 1: Fundamentals, 6th edn, Sun Microsystems Press Java Series, Prentice-Hall, 2003.
Horstmann & Cornell, Core Java 2, Vol. 2: Advanced Features, 4th edn, Sun Microsystems Press Java Series, Prentice-Hall, 2002.