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JC2002: JAVA PROGRAMMING (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 May 2022 13:30


Course Overview

This course provides a thorough grounding in programming concepts and technologies for large scale and high dependability software systems.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 2
Session First Sub Session Credit Points 20 credits (10 ECTS credits)
Campus Offshore Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Matthew Collinson

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Key parts of the syllabus include:

  • An introduction to the JAVA technology and platform
  • Basic design considerations of JAVA
  • Core features of the JAVA language
  • Java errors and debugging with Netbeans and Eclipse
  • JAVA OOP
  • Essential JAVA classes
  • Exceptions, I/O regular expressions
  • Inheritance and Interfaces
  • Java concurrency
  • Java Collections
  • JAVA Generics and Type Polymorphism
  • Javadocs
  • Deployment: JAR files, JAVA Web Start, JAVA Plug-in
  • Java GUI building
  • Functional Programming: JAVA anonymous functions and SCALA

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 70
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstanding of key features of the Java language
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstanding of the principles of language design, and how they influenced the design of Java
ProceduralApplyUnderstanding of how best to use Java in order to produce software that is both dependable and scalable, and ability to apply this

Computer Programming Exercise

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstanding of key features of the Java language
ProceduralApplyAbility to implement and deploy software using Java technologies
ProceduralApplyUnderstanding of how best to use Java in order to produce software that is both dependable and scalable, and ability to apply this

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Same as above with continuous assessment mark carried forward

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstanding of key features of the Java language
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstanding of the principles of language design, and how they influenced the design of Java
ProceduralApplyAbility to implement and deploy software using Java technologies
ProceduralApplyUnderstanding of how best to use Java in order to produce software that is both dependable and scalable, and ability to apply this

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