Programming in Java

Unit Code: HIT7037

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

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Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Master of Information Technology.

Aims & Objectives:

• Explain how Java provides support for principles of object oriented-programming, specifically abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism
• Design, develop, test, document and debug Java programs using object-oriented principles in conjunction with development tools including integrated development environments, debuggers, build scripts and unit testing tools.
• Build applications that have an event-driven graphical user interface using the standard Java libraries.
• Use the exception handling mechanism, input/output API and the Collections framework that are provided with the Java 5 (or later) SE system.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures (24 hrs), Tutorial (Labs) (24 hrs)

Assessment:

Assignments, Examination

Generic Skills Outcomes:

Students will be provided with feedback on progress in attaining the following skills: Problem solving skills

Content:

• Introduction and comparison to C/C++
• Java language
• Exceptions, streams and IO
• Java Collections Framework
• Applets and applications
• Events, event handling and AWT/Swing
• Graphics, and images/animation/multimedia
• Java development tools
  

References:

W Savitch, “Absolute Java”, 4th edition, Pearson Education Intternational, 2010

On-Line material will also be provided through Blackboard.