In this module you will keep a portfolio of practical work, which will be assessed in a mid-semester class test (weighted 30%, assessing learning outcomes 1 and 3) and in the exam.

The 2 hour exam (weighted 70%, assessing learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3) will also assess your knowledge and understanding of key object-oriented principles and their implementation in Java.

Review of object-oriented principles (objects and classes, association, inheritance and polymorphism) and their implementation in Java.
The Object class and its methods.
Abstract classes and interfaces.
Wrapper classes for primitive types.
Inner and nested classes.
The String, Stringbuffer and String Tokeniser classes, String processing.
Handling files, input, output and serialisation, building database applications with JDBC.
Localisation and Internationalisation, processing dates and time.
Regular expressions.
Exception handling and assertions.
Multithreading and concurrency.
Java collections framework.
Graphical User Interface development using swing
Java 5 features such as enumerations, enhanced for loop, formatted output, Scanner autoboxing and unboxing of primitives, generic types, variable-length argument lists.
JDK tools and deploying applications.

Two lectures and one practical session per week.
(1:n)2 (1:20)1

Hardware and software suitable for supporting the Java development environment.

Must have studied CE00371-4, Introduction to Software Development or equivalent.
AND
CE00882-4 Object-Oriented and Event Driven Programming or equivalent.

Y. Daniel Liang, Introduction to Java Programming, 9th Edition (Comprehensive Version), Pearson Prentice Hall, 2012, ISBN: 978-0132936521