Course Title: Apply intermediate object oriented language skills
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2011
Course Code: COSC5923C
Course Title: Apply intermediate object oriented language skills
School: 650T TAFE Business
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6074 - Advanced Diploma of Information Technology
Course Contact : Radhu Punchanathan
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 1409
Course Contact Email:radhu@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 50
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Apply introductory object oriented language skills ICAB4219B COSC 5356C
Course Description
This course will include coverage of the broad areas of: building application programs using objects; internal usage of collections of data; using coding standards for ease of code maintenance; saving and retrieving objects to/from binary files; overloading functions, exception handling, and inheritance; connecting to, and manipulating (creating, querying, inserting, deleting, and updating), a database; GUIs; debugging, testing, and documenting programs.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
ICAB5223A Apply intermediate object oriented language skills |
Element: |
1. Build applications using provided language utilities |
Performance Criteria: |
1. Divide multiple source code files into logical units/packages |
Element: |
2. Write programs that interact with a database |
Performance Criteria: |
1. Design and implement programs that connect to a database |
Element: |
3. Write GUI |
Performance Criteria: |
1. Employ GUI framework or text windowing interface appropriate to the chosen language |
Element: |
4. Debug application |
Performance Criteria: |
1. Use standalone debugging tools or tools provided by integrated development environment to examine variables and trace running code |
Element: |
5. Test application |
Performance Criteria: |
1. Design and document limited tests of code |
Element: |
6. Create and maintain documentation |
Performance Criteria: |
1. Read and interpret supplied design document to create code |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
In this course students will have practical lab sessions and out-of-class research and homework (including the programming of a major project).
Teaching Schedule
Week | Week commencing | Topics | Resources | Assessments |
1 | 07/02/2011 | Introduction to Course Review of Classes & Objects, Creating Code from Supplied Design Documentation Coding Standards |
Textbook: Class Handout: Coding Standards | |
2 | 14/02/2011 | The Java API, Program Documentation & Javadoc Review of Arrays & ArrayLists, and More Data Structures |
Class Handout: Using Eclipse – Javadoc | Project handout Available |
3 | 21/02/2011 | Review of Text File Processing, Interfaces, and, Saving (Persisting) and Retrieving Objects | Textbook: | |
4 | 28/02/2011 | Relationships: Inheritance & Inclusion, and, Polymorphism & Method Overriding Collections of Data and Sorting & Searching |
Textbook: Chapters 7, 8 & 16*Class Handout: Sorting & Searching | |
5 | 07/03/2011 | Review of Constructor and Method Overloading Testing & Debugging with Eclipse |
Class Handout: Using Eclipse – Testing & Debugging | Project Part 1 Due |
6 | 14/03/2011 | Revision | See Above | |
7 | 21/03/2011 |
Mid-Semester Test Project Part 1 Feedback |
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8 | 28/03/2011 | Introduction to GUI Programming using Inbuilt Java GUIs (JOptionPane) | Lab Sheet: Introduction to GUI Programming in Java using JOptionPane | |
9 | 04/04/2011 | GUIs, Interfaces (Events & Listeners) and Multiple Inheritance, and More on Exception Handling | Textbook: | |
10 | 11/04/2011 | More Advanced GUI Programming – Basic Layout Managers and Events & Listeners | Textbook: | |
11 | 18/04/2011 | Introduction to Database Programming – Querying a Database (MS Access) Table, Inserting, Updating, & Deleting Records | Class Handout: Database Programming | Project Part 2 Due |
Student Vacation -Thursday 21st April till Wednesday 27th April inclusive | ||||
12 | 02/05/2011 | More on Database Programming – Creating and Deleting Tables, and Databases & Transactional Integrity |
Project Part 2 Feedback Sheet: Introduction to Transactional Integrity in Java | |
13 | 09/05/2011 | Work on Project | Lab | |
14 | 16/05/2011 | Work on Project | Lab | Project Part 3 Due |
15 | 23/05/2011 | Revision for final test | Lab | |
16 | 30/05/2011 | Final Test | Lab | Final Test |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Joel Adams (2008) Alice in Action with Java. Thomson Course Technology, Boston, Mass. ISBN 978-1-4239-0096-2 |
13: 978-0-596 |
References
Sparke, Gerard. (2006) The Java Way: An Introduction to Programming in Java (2nd Edn.) French's Forest: Pearson Education Australia |
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Geary, David M. (1999) Graphic Java: Mastering the JFC (Volumes 1 & 2 – 3rd Edn.) Palo Alto: Prentice Hall |
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Sierra, Kathy & Bates, Bert (2005) Head First Java (2nd Edn.) O’Reilly Media, Inc: Sebastopol. ISBN 13: 978-0-596-00920-5. |
Other Resources
The Java Tutorials can be found at: http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/
Other useful resources: any book that you can find on JDBC Programming.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including technical requirements documentation, homework, assignments, group and/or individual projects and in class exercises, written tests, practical problem solving exercises, presentations, practical tests and a final exam. Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met. Students will be provided with feedback throughout the course to check their progress.
Assessment Tasks
There will be 5 assessments throughout the semester. Description of assessments and grade allocation as follows:
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Assessment 1 (due Week 5): Project Part 1
Ensure that a planning process is incorporated into the project. Using earlier project, code the 3rd tier to save/retrieve objects. Documenting, testing, and debugging the application.
Maximum % Grade Allocated: CA / NYC 10% -
Assessment 2 (due week 7): Mid-Semester Test
Provides an opportunity to demonstrate an understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of Java OO programming, including relationships, polymorphism and collections. Maximum % Grade Allocated: CA / NYC25% -
Assessment 3 (due Week 11) Project Part 2
Continuation of project program design process and systematic ongoing project task analysis and review. Adding GUI components to the 1st tier & building on the 2nd tier. Documenting, testing, and debugging the application.
Maximum % Grade Allocated: CA / NYC15% -
Assessment 4 (due Week 14) Project Part 3
Rebuilding the 3rd tier to interact with a database. Documenting, testing, and debugging the application.
Maximum % Grade Allocated: CA / NYC25% -
Assessment 5 (due week 16) Final Test
Provides an opportunity to demonstrate an understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of Java GUI and database OO programming. Maximum % Grade Allocated: 25%
Assessment Matrix
Element | Project Part 1 CA/NYC(10%) |
Mid-Sem Test CA/NYC(25%) |
Project Part 2 CA/NYC(15%) |
Project Part 3 CA/NYC(25%) |
Final Test (25%) |
Build Applications | V | -- | V | V | V |
Write DB Programs | -- | -- | -- | V | V |
Write GUI | -- | V | V | V | V |
Debug Application | -- | -- | V | V | V |
Test Application | V | V | V | V | V |
Documentation | V | V | V | V | V |
Other Information
Competency and Grading Requirements
To be deemed competent students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of a competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.
Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.
All assessments for this course must be completed to achieve a CA (Competency Achieved) grade.
Each assessment task will also carry a numerical weighting to be used for grading purposes. The grade applied to this weighting will only be awarded if a CA has been achieved in all compulsory assessment tasks.
If a student has been marked NYC (Not Yet Competent) in any of the assessment tasks, the weighting will carry no value until the student has obtained a CA.
If a CA is achieved on re-assessment then a maximum mark of 50% of the original weighting will be granted for that assessment.
Reassessments will only be granted to students who were either unsuccessful in the first attempt or have an approved special consideration application.
A final examination worth 25% will be offered to students who have achieved CA.
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