Module 08744 (2001)
Syllabus page 2001/2002
06-08744
Software Workshop 1 A
Level 1/C
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Outline
A first course in imperative, object-oriented programming, with a strong emphasis on practical program development skills.
Aims
The aims of this module are to:
- present the fundamental concepts of imperative and object oriented programming
- develop a the skills needed to write, test, and debug programs
- gain working knowledge of the Java programming language
Learning Outcomes
| On successful completion of this module, the student should be able to: | Assessed by: | |
| 1 | understand the fundamental constructs of the Java programming language | Practical work, examination |
| 2 | write programs using those constructs in Java | Practical work, examination |
| 3 | identify the common pitfalls of programming in Java, and overcome them | Practical work, examination |
| 4 | debug programs by interpreting compiler error messages, run-time error messages, and by testing | Practical work, examination |
| 5 | complete and/or correct partially-written programs | Practical work, examination |
| 6 | understand the compiler and interpreter and be able to determine the behaviour of a program, given its source code | Examination |
| 7 | use the Java API documentation to discover new classes and how to program using them | Practical work |
| 8 | undertake medium-sized development projects in Java | Practical work, examination |
| 9 | work independently, and employ books and on-line resources to solve problems | Practical work |
Restrictions, Prerequisites and Corequisites
Restrictions:
May not be taken with 06-08747 (Software Workshop 1(A) A).
Prerequisites:
None
Co-requisites:
06-08745 (Software Workshop 1 B) (linked module)
Teaching
Teaching Methods:
Lectures: 3 hrs/week, Tutorials: 1 hr/week, Labs: 8 hrs/week
Contact Hours:
Assessment
- Supplementary (where allowed): As the sessional assessment
- 3 hr examination (80%), practical work (20%), divided equally between this module and 06-08745 (Software Workshop 1 B). Students who fail these linked modules but achieve at least 30% will be allowed to resit, by examination only. Students whose mark is below 30% will be required to repeat the modules in the following academic year.
Recommended Books
| Title | Author(s) | Publisher, Date |
| Java by Dissection | Ira Pohl and Charlie McDowell | Addisson Wesley, 2000 |
| Computing concepts with Java essentials | Cay Horstmann | John Wiler & Sons, 1998 |
| Core Java 2, Vol 1 (4th Ed) | Gary Cornell & Cay S Horstmann | Prentice Hall, 1999 |
| Core Java 2, Vol 2 (4th Ed) | Gary Cornell & Cay S Horstmann | Prentice Hall, 1999 |
Detailed Syllabus
- The basic constructs common to all programs in Java.
- Editing, compiling and running programs. Dealing with errors. Assignments, basic data types, expressions, casting. Operators and precedence.
- Round-off errors. Calling methods.
- Flow of control: if-statements, for-loops, while-loops, do-loops. Break and continue.
- Arrays and strings.
- Methods: declaring and calling. Call-by-value. Overloading. Recursion.
- Classes and objects. Constructors. Modifiers (public and private).
- Pointers and reference. What happens when "new" is executed. Comparing objects for equality.
- More on classes and objects: passing object references. Class variables and class methods.
- Packages: the import statement. Arrays and strings.
- Inheritance. Introduction to exception handling.
- Unix utilities, and how they work. Programming unix utilities like grep and wc in Java
- Image processing using Portable Greymaps: flipping, scaling, rotating, fish-eye transformation
Last updated: 16 November 2001
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